Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site olivee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!olivee!gnome From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Re: Airport safety Message-ID: <414@olivee.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:41:30 EDT Article-I.D.: olivee.414 Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:41:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:50:35 EDT References: <134@rruxa.UUCP> <12200023@uiucdcsb> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 57 > > > >When they left Greece, there were guards with machine guns everywhere. > >The problem was that they wern't paying ANY attention to what was going > >on around them! They were in little groups talking with each other. One > >group of four was even playing cards. > > > >Also, remember that the TWA hijacking was an inside job, so it really > >depends on how much attention is being paid to the airport > >employees. > > -- > I find it very hard to believe that there were guards playing cards at > the airport. It takes just one complain to have these guys fired and > I do not believe they would be so stupid to risk their jobs for a card game!! > > cdp Try again. That is the American way of thinking about that scene. Now place yourself in Greece. You make a complaint to the supervisor covering that area. He nods and scribbles something on his note pad. You leave. He goes back to HIS card game. The only way to be absolutely sure of a flight's safety abroad would be to have the US air carriers have their own security, assigned to each plane. They'd have a vested interest in doing a good job because they'd be on that flight! In foriegn "black star" airports, the loading time for baggage would have to be extended to allow for fine-screening of all baggage coming on board. No locals allowed. That would piss-off many different airports, but it is one of only a few ways to get a real handle on the situation. The news last night (7/11) carried a story on new increased security when it came to carry-on luggage and how it would mean limits on size and amount (which already exists, to a certain extent). What is stupid about that whole idea is that the hostage situation came about because of lax internal security and corruption at the airport level. After all, it is kind-of hard to slip a pair of AK-47 machine guns through an airport x-ray machine! Also, if the Air India flight was indeed bombed, you can bet that the person who did it didn't take the bomb onboard as carry-on luggage! Enough flaming. Before you travel, keep an ear open to world affairs! It might be the best travel research you can do. Gary (hplabs,allegra,ihnp4)oliveb!olivee!gnome