"If ait=rcrew had the last word, aircrew would be exempt from search and we would all be less safe."
Please explain why we'd be less safe. I can't get my head round the logic of "disarming" the very crew who will be flying the aircraft.
Are they likely to attack themselves? If a baddie has got into the RHS then he can deck the captain with any number of nasty things in the cockpit. If the PIC is a baddie then he/she can do anything they like.
I don't understand.