Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
Neither scenario is remotely realistic.
Absolutely untrue.
You don't think pilots can be bribed? Especially an RJ pilot that makes $24k per year, and thinks he is just transporting marijuana for his friend, but it is actually a bomb?
You don't think that officials can be bribed to let people become pilots?
http://www.examiner.com/homeland-sec...pilot-licenses
Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Neither is the scenario of someone trying to attempt a 9/11-style hijacking, either. But that's what we seem to be trying to defend against these days.
Exactly... It is shocking that some people do not realize this. If somebody said that 9/11 would happen to me in August 2001, I would have shrugged my shoulders and said, "yeah, maybe." These are remote possibilities.
The point is that the TSA should close obvious, huge holes to security and NOT create new ones. Then, they should decide an appropriate level of general security (WTMD, I suggest), and not attempt to do strip searches or overly invasive searches on a routine basis.
Terrorists will go after the easiest "hole" in security. Giving pilots a free pass to the secure area creates a huge new large hole.