TakeScissorsAway

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CATSA Screener

What a friendly place where everyone is so trusting.

Fenito

all is lost

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CameraGuy

The ONLY reason the skies are safer is that Pax and Crew will no longer cooperate with hijackers.

The TSA has not done, nor will it do, anything to make flying safer.

Fenito

all is lost

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CATSA Screener

Checked-baggage inspection has greatly increased flight-safety as has bomb-detection equipment. And pax and crew WILL cooperate with hijackers. All they need is several hijackers with a bunch of plastic replica grenades and replica guns and they'll have no problem convincing all the rambo-wannabees to keep their heads down. Then just pull out the C4 that was hidden in the shoe (after the shoe screening goes away of course) and a small detonator that is basically impossible to catch on the x-ray and you can blow the cockpit door. Thankfully there are also FAMs and some pilots with guns to prevent this eventuality.

Spiff

Actually, the C4 could be currently hidden in the underwear or what the underwear covers, so why the idiotic focus on shoes?

And I don't think the pax are going to keep their heads down any more. Negotiating with terrorists just encourages these scumbags to take hostages. Ergo, the marshals can go too.



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iluv2fly

Gees. I'm sooooo reassured now...

CATSA Screener

Are you 14? Can you reply intelligently without the juvenile dripping sarcasm? Grow up.

CATSA Screener

You're right, it was a bad example. It could be hidden anywhere on the person. My real point was that reinforced doors don't cut it when it's still relatively easy to smuggle non-metallic stuff onto aircraft. I hope that we eventually install walk-through EDT machines (which are non-invasive and very quick).

I just don't agree here. I think that when five or six guys jump up with what appear to be guns drawn and grenades with the pins pulled and thus set to detonate if you tackle one of them, that passengers and cabin crew will cower. I believe that is why we need Air Marshalls because they will go into action at this point.

Edit: for formatting and one extra idea.

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StarGoldmember

Or scissors!

But seriously, if there are five or six grenades on a plane, isn't somebody not doing their job?

SGM

CATSA Screener

I stipulated plastic, replica grenades. Plastic things are very hard to see on the x-ray and thus easy to smuggle through in carry-on bags. This is another reason that random bag checks may be useful. I know that pisses a lot of you off (and I hate doing them) but it may obstruct or at least deter a coordinated hijacking attempt.

And yes, I'd end the pointy-object obsession for the most part if I were in charge.


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