95% failure rate. So for every gun, knife, or bomb TSA finds, it misses 19. Does anyone else find some irony in the number 19?

Let's see what Bob's response will be. I'm thinking that it may be something like, "But there were only 60 failures, out of several million people who flew on the days those tests took place, so 60 out of several million is actually a HUGE success rate!"

I'd really, really like to know what the failure rate is with innocuous prohibited items like bottles of water and snow globes. It's long been postulated on FT that one of the reasons for such a high failure rate in the Red Team tests is that TSOs are expending so much of their limited attention looking for those innocuous prohibited items that they literally forget sometimes to look for the truly dangerous ones - like pairs of 2.5lb blocks of unhidden, undisguised plastic explosive in government wrappers labeled "C4 HIGH EXPLOSIVE" in big capital letters.

I think about these things sometimes. They make me go, "Hmmm..."