A while ago on this forum, someone suggested that the baddies could hold the pilots family hostage and force him/her to take something onto the aircraft. Thats why pilots have to be screened.
That is the sort of moronic, illogical suff we are up against here. And the trouble is, it seems the gov has basically given security carte-blanch to do what ever they want. Say the wrong thing, like " I allready HAVE control of the aircraft buddy" to a security guy, and you could find yourself in serious hot water.
Some bureaucrat in the dept of Trans seems to have decreed - trumpet fanfare........" NO one will travel on an Aeroplane from an Australian Airport without having been made SECURE...."
A farce of great proportions indeed.
But what can we do about it?