Drug Trafficing and the Airlines

[Defenestrator]

I've just finished reading an article in the 'Bulletin' magazine about the 'curse' on the family of Chappelle Corby. It made me ask myself a few questions.
1. Is this issue of airport staff using flights to 'freight' their drugs around the country really as prolific as has been suggested in the press?
2. Have the AFP been actively pursuing this issue?
3. And as an aside I'm left to wonder if Chapelle (spelling...sorry) has had a lie detector test. With all the drug related crime in her family it really, for the first time, has me questioning if she is not the sweet girl as portrayed.
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[Keg]

1. Don't know.
2. I'm VERY confident that it has been- in fact, one sting was reported in the media last year?!?! I think that wasn't the only one going on but who really knows!
3. A mate from Church has a brother who has a rap sheet longer than he is tall. His father is no angel either. He loves them both very much. He's not a crim and it's a little unfair to cast dispersions in that way. You can't choose your family.

Keep in mind that she has been found guilty.

[The Truckie]

I have worked for the airlines in a past life and in the 80's & 90's people that work in the airlines were people that had a love for aviation. Then a certain airline started to get cheap and would only hire people for baggage handling jobs who came off the dole queue because the Government gave them incentives to hire people on the dole.
So now people with no love for the industry were now part of it and suddenly so was the crime.(Bags being ransacked etc.)
Before that I had never heard of this happening. It was the same as when the airlines deregulated and price wars started that the airlines started to get seats that had been slashed by passengers that should have really stayed on the trains.
Illegal practices I suspect is now ripe cause the airlines like to hire people who will work for next to nothing so they(the employees) I feel would love to do anything to help supplement their incomes without to much thought cause they have no interest in the aviation industry at all.
I wouldn't mind betting that the Corby's would know an airport worker or two who loves to choof.

[Woomera]

I think I would prefer Defenestrator's question 3 left alone, no comment.

The matter has been heard and decided by a Court of Law and that decision has no association with aviation. Any comment here would be pure conjecture.

Woomera

[P|_azbot]

I travel with a bike sometimes. The bike box is enormous and can hold heaps of stuff. I always tape every flap length ways and sign my name on each piece of tape as well as a line at each end that over runs the tape and onto the cardboard so as to be able to see if the tape has been removed. I have never had a problem with it being tampered with.

I did a race in hawaii and the yanks took the box apart and retaped it with tape with US GOVT written all over it. I must say that I fell into a bit of paranoia when I saw this and thought that maybe someone had stolen the tape and planted something in it and the fuzz were waiting for me to pick it up. :bored: :bored: :ooh: :ugh: .

Realistically, any oversized item especially in Sydney International can be tampered with as they just leave them sitting over in a corner all by themselves.

In the States, I had to approach a desk and specifically describe an item before they would bring it into the public area. Does not mean that baggage handlers could not have fiddled with it though.

[Mr Chairman]

The whole idea that there is a internal drug smuggling ring using Australian airports and other peoples baggage to move low level drugs around the country is foolish in the extreme. Why would a criminal group go to the risk of bringing there drugs into a secure airport, then placing them into a bag and then hoping that another person in another secure airport can actually meet that bag and remove the drugs and get them out of the secure airport. The idea is ludicrous especially when there is so many other ways to move contraband around which are safer with little risk. Simple drive them around in your car, slower perhaps but no complications with security.
No, I'am afraid that Chappelle Corby has been found guilty by the courts and hopefully it will teach a few young people a worthwhile lesson, smuggle it in but don't smuggle it out.

Cheers All.

[Animalclub]

Secure Airports?.... I'd like to see that!