My sympathy to the chap in question.
Spent 1hr 40mins at IAD last friday trying to get through custom's. The dedicated chap behind the screen was concerned about me being in possesion of a US student visa and being an airline pilot! Despite having passport, BA id, and the contact number at the pentagon of the friend i was visiting, a usaf major, i recieved a rude and prolonged interrogation.
As i was about to point out that if i intended to hijack an aircraft i would have probably have used the one i had control of the previous day i had a rare attack of restraint and continued my mantra of "hello old boy, nice brit here, let me in please".
I therefore would like to my lend support to "woodie" but that does require knowledge of what he actually said.
I await with intrest.