Seeing is believing. Of course, these are things discovered after the bag is long gone and the CTX technician opens the machine for maintenance, but I, too, have seen locks completely intact as well as totally destroyed underneath those machines. The force used to push the bags out of the machine is pretty incredible. And, as I said, zipper tabs, luggage tags, airline tags, etc have also been found underneath these machines. About the only thing that will jam the machine are the shoulder straps simply due to size and shape. But even then, the machine chews them up pretty good.

I'm not so sure the same applies to the airline conveyor belt (with the exception of in-line baggage systems which are integrated with TSA x-ray systems).

I understand what you're saying and the logic of what you're saying; however, what TSASuper and I are saying is to not discount the possibility of the machine simply ripping the locks right off. Again, the sheer force in these machines is something you've got to see to believe.