Originally Posted by flpab

My biggest bugaboo with the prohibited list has been the fact that daily you see bottles of wine and drink carried on board. What better weapon than a broken bottle. I think that is much more dangerous than a small knife or pair of sissors. The TSA wants screeners to focus on IEDs more than small sisors. Hope this all comes to pass and the flight attendants should realize those wine bottles are much worse than any little knife.

Originally Posted by Spiff

Ice picks and box cutters are not credible weapons to hijack a plane.

People with irrational fear of these items ought to stay home under the bed and never, ever venture to the mall where these items are not only permitted but are actually sold there. :eek:

Finally, there's a shred of common sense at The Second Al-Qaida, but some 'fraidy cats have to get all scared and worked up about it. :td: :td:

Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much

This paradigm shift didn't happen post 9/11. It happened on 9/11! This method of attack was essentially shut off during the actual hijackings themselves. Flight 93 was the famous story. The people on the Pentagon airplane knew what was happening but couldn't react fast enough.

Originally Posted by doc

With federal air marshals on planes, bulletproof cockpit doors, armed pilots and 100 percent screening of checked baggage, the threat of a terrorist taking over an airplane has lessened since the 2001 attacks, the official said. The biggest concern now is explosives.

Originally Posted by L-1011

Sounds like there is still hope for the TSA management. As a side note I saw that even DFW has a GE EntryScan now (terminal C - I don't know about the rest of them yet), which to me is another indication that TSA is ramping up their ability to check for explosives in a more efficient way.

Originally Posted by Bart

I applaud the move. I hope we get something official right away. My biggest concern is the frustration that will result when a passenger reads that TSA intends to allow small manicure scissors on board yet the screeners haven't been officially authorized to do so.

As for the rhetoric about landing planes safely yet have a bloodbath in the aisles, :rolleyes:

As I understand the article, small scissors, small pocketknives and small tools such as pocket-nerd screwdrivers (sorry, no other way to describe them) will be allowed. It is highly debatable whether or not these items ever constituted a potential weapons threat to begin with. Slashing someone with a baby Swiss Army knife may cut the skin and piss someone off, but it will hardly cut deep enough to cause serious injury nor have the blade length to reach any critical body parts. Unless, that is, someone was to lay real still as the attacker attempted to poke out an eye or something. And even then, the attacker might hit cartilage or bone which would fold the blade back on itself.

It's about time. It's a step in the right direction.

Originally Posted by kenfry

Screeners will not seem them as scissors, but rather as steak knifes, and you are back to square one.

just like shoes ... oh...they are more than 1 inch in thickness, mind you are wearing flip flops.

Originally Posted by Skyman65

Great!

So how long until they decide to let us keep our shoes on?

Originally Posted by GeneralAviation

I saw TSA head honcho Kip Hawley on the "NBC Nightly" news tonight with the ever-annoying Brian Williams. Anyhow, the point that Adminstrator Hawley was stressing can be summed up in one word: "inconsistency." He (Hawley) basically wants to keep everything in a constant state of flux to confuse and throw off the plans of "terrorists." After reading these threads for the last several years, a common theme from the flying public seems to be the lack of consistency from airport to airport, terminal to terminal, and checkpoint to checkpoint. This consistency will not be forthcoming from the likes of Mr. Hawley....."inconsistency" was a theme he stressed in no uncertain terms on the news tonight.