I’ll just drop in with the money-Quote from Jalopnik
Understood. I’ve been going through security screening right here in this line for five years and never blown up an airplane, broken any laws, made any threats, or had a government agent call my boss in Houston. And you guys have never tried to touch me or see me naked that whole time. But, if that’s what it’s come to now, I don’t want to enter the facility that badly.
I pilot coming to work is told he needs to enter a full-body scanner which is a virtual strip-search. If you’re a man the person operating the machine will be able to see if you are circumscribed or not, women, the shape of your labia will be visible. The images are not terribly secure, and frankly I’m not impressed with the personel they have to run these things.
If you opt out you can elect to be frisked by a TSA employee (see again above link) or you can elect to leave the airport (and likely get an interview with law enforcement).
As Joe likes to say TSA is a Security Theater and it accomplishes nothing but making travel unpleasant. I’ll end on a maudlin tone because this subject depresses me.
Roberts reply: “If your perspective prevails – and I’m afraid it may – we may all live to find ourselves wishing we had fought in earlier days, when we still had a fighting chance.”
We can get lost rights back…but not without a strong fight…better to not let them slip through your fingers in the first place.
/facepalm/
Not to mention the fact that if the frelling pilot wants to crash the plane, he doesn’t need weapons or a bomb to do it.
It kind of reminds me of this story, where they wouldn’t let the pilot carry on an airline issue steak knife – you know, the exact same knife they give to every single passenger with the in-flight meal. Oh, yeah, and he was the pilot, too. He wouldn’t need the knife to do something like kill everybody on board – the right movement of the controls at the right time would do it just fine.
TSA = The Stupid Administration
Don’t know much about planes, but I’d imagine that the big passenger airliners a rugged tug of the stick might rip those big wings clean off (tho I’d actually be surprised if there wasn’t a computer lock-out kinda like how modern cars won’t let you broady through a drift turn thanks to traction control) But still just a dick move on landing could kill everybody pretty well.
Wait till the co-pilot goes to the restroom and lock/block the door. Pull back on the yoke until the plane starts to stall, then give full left or right rudder to put it into a spin. I doubt the co-pilot could get back into the cockpit at all at that point, and even if he could he probably couldn’t recover the aircraft before impact. In fact, I doubt most airliners could recover from a spin at all.
Realistically, if they don’t trust the pilot to go through security with nothing more than verification that he really is the pilot, they shouldn’t let him fly the plane at all.