Originally Posted by
Glamgirl
I'm rather horrified that people on here thinks that us cc checking boarding cards at the door has no impact on the safety of a flight. Imagine this: some "unstable" person books in for a flight with checked in luggage and blatantly walks onto another aircraft. There's explosives (or even something as small as a box of "Lucky Luke" matches in this person's luggage. The "unstable" one travels to ABC safely, but the luggage travels half-way to DEF before bringing the aircraft down. Therefore, it's a security risk.
Eh? If the passenger wanted to do as you suggest then surely the simple answer is not to board any aircraft at all? The security check that stops what you fear (unaccompanied luggage being dangerous) is the check on the aircraft that the luggage is on that so are all the attendant passengers.
But in any case, you seem not to have noticed that the current breed of terrorist has no problems dying for their beliefs so the issue of people flying separately from their luggage is more or less irrelevant these days.