Originally Posted by
ghostrider10
You're supposed to put your jacket through the carryon x-ray. So I put my "important stuff" in its pockets, zipped them, and then sent it through the x-ray, like any carryon. Apparently the x-ray operator at BHM didn't like what she saw so the jacket got secondaried. What is this?
Most likely because of the zippers and the various ways that things overlaid each other in the direction of the x-ray beam, it wasn't possible to see things clearly enough. This could be more of an issue if one or more items was relatively opaque to x-rays.