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Old Sep 29, 2008 | 8:12 am
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Originally Posted by mre5765
Someone in a cock pit can cause as much or more (as we learned from 9/11) at the controls of the plane than with a bomb, gun, or more than 100 mL of shampoo. What is the point of screening a commercial aviation pilot that is entering the sterile area to pilot a plane?
Why screen the FAs, whose union insists on screening of everyone, FWIW? Either there are dangers or there are not, right? I think that the bigger concern is people posing as pilots to avoid screening.

This should probably end up over in TS/S where it'll get the usual once over by that crowd...
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