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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Re: Airport safety
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:41:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:41:30 1985
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> 
> >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