Originally Posted by
United737522
A nice read:
7 December 1987; Pacific Southwest Airlines BAe146-200; near San Luis Obispo, CA: A recently fired USAir employee used his invalidated credentials to board the aircraft with a pistol and apparently killed his former manager and both pilots (USAir had recently purchased PSA). All five crew members and the 37 other passengers were killed.
So, by examining credentials closer, we can maybe keep the people who use expired IDs and such off planes. Tough to argue this one...
Oh? The cause of this tragedy was expired ID?
Now that's tough to argue! The cause of this tragedy was so obviously a weapon in the hands of someone determined to settle a score. How you bring expired ID's into the equation, other than it being a tangential quote from wherever you got this, is lost on me.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention as the MCO rampers just recently smuggled multiple handguns and an M-16 onto a Comair flight to SJU. Get your head out from wherever you stuck it, and take an objective look at the lay-out of the typical airport. Access to the "sterile" area is easily available to a huge variety of airline and serice personnel via a card swipe and a code entry, if that. Weapon through there? Easy, as so often proven. ID expired or not? Total red herring.
ID verification <> improved security !!!