Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site water.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!water!jbtubman From: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Airport safety Message-ID: <671@water.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 11:37:17 EDT Article-I.D.: water.671 Posted: Thu Jul 4 11:37:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 03:15:10 EDT References: <134@rruxa.UUCP> <19700005@ada-uts.UUCP> <1733@amdahl.UUCP> <1734@amdahl.UUCP> Reply-To: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 28 Summary: In article <1734@amdahl.UUCP> dss00@amdahl.UUCP (dss00) writes: >What is even more interesting that there was almost no criticism >of the security at Canadian airports where the explosives that >blew Air India 182 out of the sky were put on board. Oh sure! >That the plane was blown away by explosives is in itself a speculation. >But then how about the bag that blew up at Narita airport? >That one came from Canada. > >Its high time some thing is done to protect civilian population >from being caught in the cross fire. > >Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00 (408) 746-6058 Actually, there was scads of criticism of Canadian airport security. New X-ray and explosive-sniffing machines were brought in within days. There were also 4 hour lineups for international departures as all luggage was searched by hand. The big suspicion now is that the bombs may have been an inside job (either a package given to the pilot, or a bomb placed by a baggage handler). India was the real target of the Air India attack; Canadians aren't worth a terrorist's time. It's a damn shame that Canadians were killed because of a struggle on the other side of the world; a struggle that we could exert little or no influence on anyway. (It's just as bad that Indians and Japanese were killed, too.) Jim Tubman University of Waterloo