Well done to the security staff. It is, however, what they get paid for. No one says well done to the crew when a plane completes a flight without crashing, because its the crews job not to crash.
The Ryanair basher who made the comment about the bag - that was pathetic. Hopefully the moderators will take appropriate action.
Ryanair had to send another aircraft because the one that was to originally operate the service, as you could see from the news footage, was being extensively searched by police, sniffer dogs, and no doubt a few other organisations.
Whoever suggested that groups of no more than 4 from one religion or race on a flight - again not very clever. A family of five asian people comes to check in on a flight - two adults, three childrem. "Sorry Mr and Mrs Patel, we only excpet groups of 4 people who are not white european males". I dont think so.
Those that think passengers would overwhelme terrorists need to have a rethink in my opinion. How do you overwhelme 20 determined and motivated hijackers?
This is a timely reminder, less than a year after Sep 11, that there are those out there who still try, and in this case, came very close to succeeding, to commit acts of terrorism in commercial flights. It beholds everyone of us in the aviation industry to stay sharp and be vigilant.
Last edited by timzsta; 30th August 2002 at 09:39.