Passenger Boards Plane With Boxcutters

Passenger Boards Plane With Boxcutters at New York's JFK Airport

Published March 02, 2011

| New York Post

A passenger managed to waltz past security at New York's JFK airport with three boxcutters in his carry-on luggage -- easily boarding an international flight while carrying the weapon of choice of the 9/11 hijackers, sources told the Post.

The stunning breach grounded the flight for three hours Saturday night and drew fury from Port Authority cops, who accused the Transportation Security Administration of being asleep on the job.

"In case anyone has forgotten, the TSA was created because of a couple boxcutter incidents," said one PAPD source, referring to the weapons used by al Qaeda operatives to commandeer the jets they later slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11

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1) Do you think a few guys with box cutters could actually hijack an aircraft post 9/11? I know I would take a bullet to prevent a jet liner from crashing into a building.
2) TSA's own audits with real firearms have shown they get overlooked way too often.
It is fatiguing duty and the screeners are going to miss a lot.

Once again the creation of TSA screening of everyone is simply a miss-focused effort. The innocent general public bears the brunt of this misguided effort while the criminals who are intent on terrorism find ways of circumventing defenses. If a terrorist gets as far as the screening area of an airport, it is likely to be too late. The rest of us, who travel and aren't allowed to bring our partially used large tube of toothpaste, or a vile of perfume or aftershave are in essence declared potential terrorists. It is stupid. Surely there are other ways of dealing with travel and terrorism.

TSA screening is not about "passenger safety"... It's about the "illusion of passenger safety." It's "theater" designed to make the traveling public "feel" safe.

One well-trained commando-type could take a #2-pencil and shove it through a flight-attendant's eye-socket. ANYTHING can be used as a weapon in trained hands. And ANYONE can walk into a terminal at one of the airline check-in desks and detonate a bomb and kill everyone standing in line to check their baggage, etc......

SS109 wrote: 1) Do you think a few guys with box cutters could actually hijack an aircraft post 9/11? I know I would take a bullet to prevent a jet liner from crashing into a building.
2) TSA's own audits with real firearms have shown they get overlooked way too often.
It is fatiguing duty and the screeners are going to miss a lot.

agreed

LadyJazzer wrote: TSA screening is not about "passenger safety"... It's about the "illusion of passenger safety." It's "theater" designed to make the traveling public "feel" safe.

One well-trained commando-type could take a #2-pencil and shove it through a flight-attendant's eye-socket. ANYTHING can be used as a weapon in trained hands. And ANYONE can walk into a terminal at one of the airline check-in desks and detonate a bomb and kill everyone standing in line to check their baggage, etc......

and agreed