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From: John Marshall <eNewshound at eNewswires.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:34:25 UTC
Airline Pilots To ANN: Security Efforts 'Unproductive' An ANN Special Report by Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell ANN has been getting extensively detailed e-mail and phone reports from pilots on the front lines of the airline industry, and the reports we are getting are quite worrisome. Without exception, the reports we have received thus far cast grave doubts on the potential efficiency and effectiveness of the current effort. One Airline Captain reported that the efforts were “completely unproductive, asinine and totally cosmetic… every airport is different, each airport has a Safety Czar who rarely knows what he is doing, and the rules keep changing from airport to airport and hour to hour.” Pilots noted that this was causing excessive and unnecessary delay, and a sense of great frustration and even fear from flight crews. “Some of my stews are coming unglued… they see that this stuff is bogus and they feel vulnerable and helpless,” said one First Officer. This captain and a number of other pilots reported bizarre procedures in which aircraft Captains were not allowed into their cockpits without being accompanied by the other pilot, flight attendants couldn't come on board unless they did so en masse, and IDs were constantly checked by “...new hires that rarely seemed to know what they were doing. Who are these people and how did they get qualified in just a day or two?” one Captain asked. One Captain said that he was accompanied/supervised on an airplane walkaround by a guy that “didn’t know an aileron from his ass… If I wanted to sabotage the airplane, I probably could have gotten him to help out… The guy was clueless.” Virtually all of our correspondents reported that the current efforts would NOT have prevented a repeat of last Tuesday’s tragedy… “There are too many innocent things that can be turned into weapons… That’s what these guys did last time: took items not normally associated with prohibited weaponry and went out and killed people with them… Unfortunately, killing people isn't that hard when they’re determined to do just that." For the WHOLE story, http://www.aero- news.net -- John Marshall IAC Chapter 49 WHP
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