Originally Posted by Old NFO
How do you know? Are you omnipotent, or just guessing? I have over 10,000 military hours and 15 years of heavy commercial air travel, I have seen people die on acft. It is not pretty. I have a number of friends flying for most of the majors today and the airlines have strict SOP for certain incidents and types of actions, they DON'T have an option of continuing to the destination in many of those. Even in the military, with only flight crew aboard who are fully trained, SOP will more often than not dictate landing the acft to resolve the problem.
Sorry, but diversions for BOB on a bag, water bottles and cosmetics are just plain insane and no one is going to die as a result of not diverting in these situations. It's not rocket science
and one doesn't have to be omnipotent to realize that.
Originally Posted by Old NFO
Justageek, I didn't miss the point at all- You do not understand aircraft/airline operations. To solve your dilemma, we could just make all airlines like El Al, when the cockpit door is closed, the back of the bus ceases to exist as far as the pilots are concerned, that way you get no diverts and no "problems". Or let a situation get out of hand and bring the acft down, then you are looking at $100's of millions of dollars in lawsuits... So to me, even at $500k vs. many millions, the diverts make sense.
No thanks, that's a classical over-solution to a non-problem. There is no need to shoot anyone or blast planes out of the sky for water. This country really needs to get a grip on itself and what is really a threat and what is not.
Originally Posted by Old NFO
Of course the REAL answer is to make people accountable for their own actions, e.g. arrest, confinement, and realistic sentences.
I agree completely. Let's begin with the TSA "leadership". Let's also include any airline employee who falsely cites or makes up a "security" directive and attempts to enforce it. Let's add screeners who steal, damage property, violate the ADA or touch passengers inappropriately.