Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
No Leezyet, they didn't send boys in posing as pilots. They boarded as passengers, started slashing the throats of passengers and cabin crew until the pilots let them into the cockpit.
9/11 would not have been prevented, and will not be prevented again, by having background-checked, security pass-wearing pilots being harassed three or four times a day as to whether the paper-flight plan contains a sharp implement (!), Captain's tennis rackets being confiscated (!) or hassled as to why we are carrying diagrams in our brief-cases of airports.....!
Mate, we would just use the crash-axe on the other bloke if we were that way inclined. EVERYBODY knows that. But you know what? 99.99999999999999999999999% of blokes aren't that way inclined. So focus the resources where they NEED to be focused.
What planet are you on?