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Surprise Surprise No Fly List Doesn't Mean You Can't Learn To Fly
Not too surprised by this latest revelation. Almost too ironic to be believed. (www.washingtonpost.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
After the SKYWEST suspened pilot incident who knows what, will be required of the flight crews. It only takes 1 person, to cause changes for everyone else.
So true. In 1986 we(flight crews) were walking past security without screening. Then a fired and disgruntled gate agent at PSA pulled a gun and shot the crew of a BAE 146. One week later we were all marching through security. Ironically, I was based at IAD in those days and the security company was owned by an Iranian national. I put a pork chop sticker on my nav bag.
Even though I had been an airline employee for decades & just because I commuted by air daily to go to work - I was instantly on the NO FLY LIST when it was first implemented following 9/11. Instantly, twice per day I was disrobed, poked, prodded, probed & scanned - for no reason other than my own last-minute standby reservations made on my own airline for commuting purposes. Crew members also encountered this problem back then. I know from my son who is a Fedex pilot that TSA still wands commercial crew members - a dangerous, unhealthy & unnecessary practice.
I have read previously that the 911 terrorists who learned to fly were in fact here legally. Our biggest problem is too many bureaus, none of them really doing their job, who don't communicate coupled with pretty much an open border policy. Something really wrong if an illegal can get an airline ticket in the first place.
Seems to me that the INS is the main problem. Try to over stay a visa in China, or even Thailand. Strict enforcement by just that agency would put a big dent in this problem.
Exactly. Selective enforcement by INS is rampant. Illegal is illegal no matter how you got here.
Yes they could.. the airline ticket purchase is a private transaction and the only verification at the airport is to see if the Photo ID matches the person & the name on the Ticket.