Originally Posted by
Cujo665
You also only see one side of the equation. I know several crew members who upon being sent to random turns out they’ve had prohibited items. Razor blades and leatherman’s mostly; but still it shouldn’t happen at all. A few pilots over the years have been randomed with a firearm that was “accidentally left in their bag from a range day.”
We all know what we can and can’t bring. We were behind a 10 member crew from another carrier the other day and KCM was closed. 3 of 10 (1 pilot) of them had prohibited items removed. That’s pretty poor performance.
should we be exempt? Ask German wings, the JB CA that flipped out in midflight, or the countless other flights where crew members were the problem. How about the crew members smuggling drugs through KCM that get caught every once in a while. They aren’t packing the bag themselves, and they often hand the bag off to the contact later inside security. What is to prevent them from sticking a gun in with the drugs?
catching crew has happened often enough that TSA is just here to stay. Is TSA perfect, far from it; it is however another layer in the Swiss cheese model to catch a problem before it happens.
It’s not a union issue at all.
Were they trying to kill people with their razor blades, leather mans and guns? Somehow a so called prohibited item makes you a criminal. If a pilot goes into a cockpit how hard is it for him/her to crash the airplane. Can an FSDO or police office go bonkers and kill everyone, or are they to pure for that? You trust your government in this day and age? The one that just gave billions in arms to the taliban. I believe the crazy ones are you that believe “trust but verify” is the best answer.
im done with this thread. Looking for the day when automation takes over and there are no pilots to fly. Sooner than you think.
do you only trust uniformed cops or