TSA "reverse" screening
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1. Safety of other passengers. In this case, a smaller plane means that someone who intends harm has a limited number of people he can hurt. Pax are free to make the decision that they don't want to fly on a plane where pax don't go through security inspection.
2. Safety of the non-flying public. The non-flying public have a safety interest in ensuring that planes aren't turned into weapons. Hence, the general public has grounds to require a reasonable level of security on board aircraft. In this case, a plane with lower speed, size, and range represents less of a danger to the non-flying public, reducing the rationale for spending a given amount of money to secure that plane.
Note that I believe that both interests 1 and 2 can be fully satisfied for all types of commercial aviation through, at most, 9/10/01 levels of security (metal detector and baggage x-ray), particularly with reinforced cockpit doors on aircraft.
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What other airports utilize "reverse" screening?
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/lo...b2fba7d68.html
Some interesting counter material for the sheep that believe we need to screen passengers on all commercial aircraft to protect the non-flying public on the ground from a 9/11 style attack.
I would think a 25,000 lb turboprop carrying 500+ gallons of fuel is still very much a "flying missile".
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/lo...b2fba7d68.html
Some interesting counter material for the sheep that believe we need to screen passengers on all commercial aircraft to protect the non-flying public on the ground from a 9/11 style attack.
I would think a 25,000 lb turboprop carrying 500+ gallons of fuel is still very much a "flying missile".
Perhaps instead of just whining about things you can outline what should be changed and then dig into the counterarguments of those changes.
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Meanwhile, you have no problem with an entirely unscreened small airplane landing at a major airport because...??
It's not enough to say that the plane will land away from the terminal and the pax will be bussed to their security screening. That's assuming the pilot of the small aircraft isn't a bad guy who has no intention of landing at a remote parking site. By the time anyone realizes his ill intent, it will be far too late to stop him.
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Your attitude seems to parallel all that is bad with the TSA. Do you work for them?
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As for things to change:
Smarter clerks
Fire clerks who are too learn or do their jobs
Fire clerks who abuse passengers
End of the Shoe Carnival
End of the War on Water
Übermenschen screening for all
Fire all redundant clerks
Last edited by Carl Johnson; Nov 6, 2015 at 6:15 pm
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TSA needs to stop worrying about pax. Some of the biggest issues that have come up in the last couple years were those who control the planes or have access to secure areas without need for screening. What next TSA screening for Cessna flights?
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Security Theater!
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Everything that I am reading says the crash in Egypt was an explosive placed on the plane by an airport worker.
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TSA's failure to screen airport workers is criminally negligent.
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As far as I could tell during my brief visit to NZ it was actually dependent on plane size: jets (A320 and bigger) had screening, turboprops (ATR72 and smaller) didn't. Admittedly I only observed this at Christchurch and Queenstown, but my acquaintances there confirmed most domestic flights don't have screening (and were surprised when the A320 flight did have screening). Furthermore, the screeners didn't seem to care about liquids (I seem to remember taking my cup of coffee through the WTMD), but that could just be my memory failing.
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My recollection is that the rule of thumb is "if the flight could theoretically reach Australia, and hence become another country's problem, we'll screen it, but if the airplane's range means the flight's purely domestic, it's our (NZ's) call, and we're fine not screening."
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