Putting aside all the big kiddies on here who speculate on how and where and at what stage of flight he should have detonated his shoe bomb and after listening to the numerous 'TV experts' waffle on about sniffer dogs and nitrate sensors we now see even more pathetic knee jerk reaction from absolutely useless 'security experts' making passengers remove their shoes and put them through the x-ray machine. I mean, how more idiotic can it get?
As mentioned in an earlier post, if these penny pinching airline beancounters had just a bit more foresight and slightly larger cojones than a castrated mouse and invested in EL AL style security profiling we would all be a bit safer. It has just been reported that this guy was refused an earlier flight because he was acting a bit weird but they decided to let him on the MIA flight! Who is the dumb security chief that is going to pass the buck on this one?
Until airlines, airports and governments get off their tight backsides and invest in proper security that prevents these dangerous people from even getting to the check in desk, never mind the the aircraft, then all we are going to see is more brainless security where their idea of security is a magnetic loop and an x-ray scanner AFTER check in and before the duty free or gate. Too late and as shown, easily breached.