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US flight crews terrified

Draconian security measures including very intrusive pat-downs and body scans do not calm down US flight crews. They seem scared stiff after a passenger aboard a Northwest Airlines flight set off firecrackers on December 25, 2009, causing commotion and some minor injuries.

Below are two examples of panicking US flight crews. On January 6, 2010, a passenger aboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Portland to Hawaii feels uncomfortable because he cannot stow his bag under his bulkhead seat. He fills out a comment card with language that a flight attendant interpret as threatening. The pilot reports the incident. Two US F-15 fighter jets are launched to escort the plane back to Portland.

Pat-down
On January 8, 2010, flight attendants of an AirTran Airways flight from Atlanta to San Francisco serve a passenger five airplane-size bottles of wine. Once he is drunk, he locks himself in the aircraft lavatory. The pilot reports the incident. Two F-16s are dispatched to escort the plane to an emergency landing in Colorado Springs. The passenger had no dangerous items and no charges have been filed.

Other US airlines have reported similar incidents. This raises some questions:
- How rational is it to dispatch two fighter jets to escort a plane with one passenger a panic flight attendant
  considers unruly?
- What else can they do than accompany a plane or shoot it down?
- Is there a cost-benefit analysis of the interceptions?
- Why are there no reports of similar incidents by any non-US airline?
- Do the US Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) erratic security directives fuel rather than tone down the
  scare among US flight crews?

Related articles: “Firecrackers lead to panic”; “DHS in panic for 2 days” and “Who is there?”

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Good questions! I guess the last two questions are hard to answer. Would it be possible to get answers from the military and/or government agencies to the first three questions? After all, they work with tax payer's money.

Posted by Brian Devonshire, on Saturday, 16 January 2010 at 11:32
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