Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
Neither do I. That said, I agree with the below.
"I've heard 10 different descriptions of the pocketknife," authority spokesman Pini Schiff told Israel TV, dismissing the knife as a weapon. "Our security is meant to detect strategic weapons that could be used to hijack a plane," he said, not small implements.
Otherwise, he warned, every passenger with a metal belt buckle or a pen would be stopped and searched, which would cause delays.
How many people have posted here that one cannot hijack a plane with a knife anymore? You can't blame the IAA for letting him onboard with something he couldn't hijack the plane with.
They profile (in every sense of the word) and then search with varying intensity. If they don't find anything that can be used to hijack the plane, or to blow it up, they let you on. They don't ground people for 'bad intent'.