Originally Posted by DoggyDaddy
Personally, I think the security measures taken today are way overblown. I agree, screening for guns and bombs should be continued, but minute pieces of metel - come on!!! As many posters have stated, a person can inflict serious damage with a multitude of common implements, including ones own hands.
After 9-11, I would think that most passengers would not allow a person or persons to gain access to the cockpit while in flight - period. But as I said, while the doors are open while boarding is an entirely different issue.
Am I alone in this, or do others feel the same?
DD
I fully agree. Air travel would be safer if cockpit doors are secured during flight, screening only focused on guns and large knives, all checked luggage and cargo is screened for bombs, and most importanly pax are screened for bombs. If they took the effort and money currently used to screen for tweezers and applied this towards the real threat - suicide bombers - flying would be safer. Today the only thing that makes flying safer is the willingness of passengers to risk their own lives to take any potential terrorist down. The new screeing does nothing to enhance security.