Originally Posted by SeeBuyFly

If the FA refused to declare, that would make a search more likely, which is not something a mule would want. Usually people are asked and then waved through--I am sure that has happened to all of us. In other words, the FA gambled and lost.

If the FA had known in advance that the search was going to happen anyway, then the right thing to do would have been to not make a false declaration. But that's a big if/then.

[Surely all this is obvious?]