surely not you just don't get it, do you?!
Before 9/11 no one could give an example of 2 a/c being deliberately flown into a high rise building, but it did happen didn't it.
The aircraft in 911 were HIJACKED - but NOT by the crew.
Prior to 911, other aircraft had also been hijacked, however the recommended approach was one of obedient, non-confrontational compliance by the crew, with the hijacker(s).
Am I not right in thinking that there has been one instances at least of an airliner being crashed because the pilot wished to end it all?
And in those cases, did the suicidal pilot use a weapon? (Answer=NO).
Would a physical body search have found anything on that pilot that would have prevented the crash? (Answer=NO).
I would feel unhappy getting on an aircraft knowing the crew hadn't been screened.
And it is to that sort of mentality that these checks are aimed.
Pax SEEING crew being screened.
What they DON'T see though, is what CAN harm them....the (terrorist) caterer who loads explosives in the galley trolley....the cleaner who plants explosives somewhere in the aircraft....the lame who leaves a weapon, or explosives, planted for one of the screened pax......the bloody great crash axe in the cockpit, accessable by all flight deck members.
But that's okay, because the security screeners have pulled the Captain's nail clippers, and the F/O's Swiss Army knife!
Feel secure in your naievete,
surely not.
