"A Solution In Search Of A Problem"

[frustratedpilot]

TSA's Plan For Protecting Airports--From Their Own Users!

Yes, they want every airport in the nation to make up their own standard security credentials--which would be deliberately invalid at ANY OTHER AIRPORT--and make every pilot carry those for every single field he or she uses

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[gunlord]

Ugh, talk about bureaucracy. D:

[tochiro998]

....... What

[frustratedpilot]

There's a town in the south, I recall the name of "Alliance"?--where the majority of unclaimed baggage from the major airlines is collected and auctioned off. There is a whole industry involved and the airlines get some revenue from it. There's no incentive to be above-board on the airlines' part.

And the TSA is an out-of-control beast born out of the Bush Administration's all-pervasive paranoia. Sheesh.

[tochiro998]

I did not know that, about the unclaimed luggage auctions. yet I should have guessed because they have some pretty detailed figures about it, don't they

[frustratedpilot]

You wrote: "(altho there was one airliner downing that I can't help but wonder if it was blown up by a successful shoe bomb. The one that reportedly had a problem with properly venting fumes from its center tank? The one the conspiracy nuts think was shot down by a US Navy missile? Yeah.)"

I recall that was both a poorly vented fuel tank and poorly maintained electrical wiring. There were other incidents in other aircraft to support the finding and change procedures. Sometimes an accident is in fact an accident.

And while Mythbusters did an okay job of debunking the Goldfinger climax premise, I would never carry a firearm aboard a pressurized aircraft if I were aircrew. I consider that to be too reckless.