With all the increased security these days, one wonders how they got a bomb on board in the first place.
ID is checked more thoroughly to enter a music festival, nightclub or even a city pub than it is to get on board a domestic flight in Australia. At least it is in my experience.
Australia will send two RAAF aircraft to help search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his Malaysian counterpart has accepted an offer of the P-3C long-range maritime surveillance aircraft. One plane left Darwin on Sunday night and the other left on Monday morning.
Airport security has never caught anyone trying to get a bomb on board. It's the biggest waste of time ever. The mushrooms who fly once a year take comfort in it though, so well all have to put up with it.
I don't doubt that it's of limited effectiveness and that fake ID's are available pretty easily.In all seriousness, what does it matter? Does checking ID prevent anything but the laziest terrorist from getting onboard?
I don't doubt that it's of limited effectiveness and that fake ID's are available pretty easily.
But I still find it strange to be having one level of security often used at places of entertainment and a lower level of security used at airports. I just think that, will all the fuss about aviation "security" since 9/11, it would be logical to expect more such measures would be used at airports than anywhere else and yet that is not the case.
The FBI is also being sent, although officials stressed there was no evidence of terrorism yet.
Concerns have been expressed that the flight may have been targeted by an anti-Chinese group such as the Uighur militants from China’s restive Xinjiang province in the country’s northwest but, again, there is no evidence or claim of responsibility so far.
In fact, sources told NBC News that only “wackos” had so far claimed to be behind the incident, as often happens in the wake of global catastrophes.
Known terror groups such as al Qaeda traditionally seek credit after perpetrating attacks but have stayed quiet, with no “chatter” — or intercepted communications — picked up by intelligence agencies about the plane.
Must just be me then? Stopped in L.A. airport where a rather large Negro lady security guard packing the 45 went downtown on my hand luggage and could not get it in her pin head that "men" actually wear cologne. I had a bottle of parfum' Calvin Klein Truth in my backpack and she DID NOT LIKE IT !!! She repeatedly asked me what it was ... I went to show her that you spray it on your body and she immediately backed up and went for the gun and stated "I would not be doing that if I were you Sir!"
I SHAT and complied with her wishes ... QUICK SMART !! Backpack through the X Ray machine, bottle of cologne separately through the X Ray machine and me through the stand up X Ray machine sans belt, shoes, watch, wallet you know the drill. "Have a nice day Sir" after she emptied everything out of the back pack AGAIN and I had to put it all back and continued on my journey.
I think the Malaysian Airline is a tragic accident and a coincidence that 2 stolen passports were used. I do not see any terrorist organisations lining up to claim responsibility? Or is it too early yet??
http://www.news.com.au/world/malays...fter-it-vanished/story-fndir2ev-1226849847203
Troy Buswell goes into meltdown and resigns from Cabinet.
http://www.news.com.au/national/wes...wn-quits-cabinet/story-fnii5thn-1226850029901
Not a good look for the Libs with the state election on 5th April
Getting rid of him can only improve the LNP image.
Would be better if they dis endorsed him
Apparently, there was no distress call.
So now, apparently suspicions turn to pilot or mechanical error.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140311
So the absence of a distress call, becomes more poignant.
If that's true, it adds a whole new dimension to this mystery and lets in the possibility that the plane has been hijacked or stolen....
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