![]() ![]() This allows for contraband to be fairly easily swaped under toilet cubical walls etc (which has been done by contraband smuglers on numerous occasions). ![]() Thus it is possible in some places for minimal/non security checked non international transfer passangers to mix with security checked international travelers. In some parts of the world security checking is minimal for non US/UK flights. In some places all transit pasengers share the same facilities. Point 1, there is a well known hole in the security systems of airports. “I can’t wait for Bruce to comment on the Nigerian Terrorist bombing attempt on the Delta flight tonight in Detroit.”Īs far as I can tell from what has been said it is a failing of the way the system works in two ways.ġ, Transfer passangers are assumed to have been cleared.Ģ, There are no penalties for trying it on with airport security. I posted the following on Bruce’s Friday Squid page in answer to something posted before I realised Bruce had opened a thread on the Bobby Carbn, Tags: air travel, bombs, DHS, homeland security, physical security, terrorism, TSA Security succeeded.ĮDITED TO ADD (12/26): Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks. This week, the second one worked over Detroit. ![]() Only two things have made flying safer : the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers. I don’t want to even think about how much C4 I can strap to my legs and walk through your magnetometers.Īnd what sort of magical thinking is behind the rumored TSA rule about keeping passengers seated during the last hour of flight? Do we really think the terrorist won’t think of blowing up their improvised explosive devices during the first hour of flight? I said this in an interview with then TSA head Kip Hawley in 2007: ![]()
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