Just a question from an ignorant, ground-based numpty about the numerous postings that I see suggesting that pilots should not be subject to security checks.
What about the scenario in which a pilot who is part of a plot carried a bomb through security because he/she is not searched, then passed it on to someone else on a different flight to detonate? Thus, security would have been breached in the worst possible way, but there would be no way to track down how this had happened. The pilot who smuggled the bomb through could thus do so again (and again, and again).
It seems to me, in my utter ignorance, that the security checks on flight crew might be to avoid this sort of event.
Am I way off the plot (apologies if so)?
Dr Dave