Originally Posted by
Flaflyer
But none of those recent terrorists went through an airport checkpoint, TSA or other, on the way to their terror attack.
In the past dozen years TSA has screened 700 million pax a year, or a total of 8 billion searches, which is more than the Earth’s population. Granted they did not search every individual person on Earth, and most of their customers are “repeat” customers. Many on this board have been screened hundreds if not thousands of times, and on their 1000th screening were found to be “Still NOT a terrorist.”
TSA has screened 8 billion passengers and found ZERO terrorists. What does that math tell you?
It tells me that you have touched upon one of the most important but overlooked issues with security: the next attack will
not come on a plane. That one's done. Blowing up an aircraft would be a tragedy of immense proportions, but would not lead to the catastrophic losses that we saw on 9/11. And passengers are never going to let a hijacker take control of a plane again.
If we're talking about large scale disasters, the scenario that scares me is the guy who gets on a train with a suitcase full of explosives and sets them off under Penn Station.
And truthfully, neither of those situations scares me much, since they are so unlikely to occur.
Mike