Originally Posted by beauvoir

This is a good point about security theater, and a little talked-about problem. Check this out: "According to the Cornell study, roughly 130 inconvenienced travelers died every three months as a result of additional traffic fatalities brought on by substituting ground transit for air transit. That's the equivalent of four fully-loaded Boeing 737s crashing each year."

Source: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...port-security/