Step Right Up, Folks!
I hate taking my shoes off at the airport. Worse, however, is seeing other passengers' deformed and smelly feet. Gross. Absolutely hideous. Do flight crews have to undergo the same indignities?
From Reuters: LOD, Israel - Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons, though the new device cannot yet sniff out explosives. Only the shoes of passengers deemed suspicious by Ben-Gurion Airport staff are removed, X-rayed and swabbed for bomb residues. Most people can now keep their shoes on. Installed next to the walk-through scanners at Ben-Gurion, "MagShoe" announces within two seconds whether the footwear of the passenger standing on it contains unusual metal that might be a knife for a hijacking or a bomb detonator part. "This innovation brings enormous logistical value as it significantly cuts down the discomfort and delays associated with standard shoe searches," said Nissim Ben-Ezra, security technologies manager for Israel's Airports Authority. But he said MagShoe must be used in conjunction with other precautions, especially as it would not spot hidden explosives -- a major concern after the botched 2001 "shoe bombing" by al Qaeda sympathizer Richard Reid aboard a Paris-Miami flight. A bomb-sniffing version of the suitcase-sized MagShoe is in the works, an Israeli security source said. The current version, produced by Israeli firm Ido Security Ltd., costs about $5,000. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is assessing MagShoe's feasibility for American airports and several other countries have expressed an interest, the Israeli source said. |
Not if we are in uniform.
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Just think of the traumatic images we would have to endure if Richard Reid was wearing explosive underwear.
And YES, I KNOW, it's my joke. But it's still funny. |
How do you know he wasn't? I'm sure there was a lot of curry in his diet.
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Originally Posted by dojetdriver
(Post 477764)
Just think of the traumatic images we would have to endure if Richard Reid was wearing explosive underwear.
And YES, I KNOW, it's my joke. But it's still funny. |
Originally Posted by vagabond
(Post 477751)
I hate taking my shoes off at the airport. Worse, however, is seeing other passengers' deformed and smelly feet. Gross. Absolutely hideous. Do flight crews have to undergo the same indignities?
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Originally Posted by newKnow
(Post 477755)
Not if we are in uniform.
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Originally Posted by newKnow
(Post 477755)
Not if we are in uniform.
Originally Posted by Ottopilot
(Post 477856)
Not normally, but every airport is different. I've taken my shoes off for no reason as a pilot. It does happen. I know what the TSA rules say, but I'm not sure the TSA does. :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by f10a
(Post 477915)
That must be some amazing uniform that changes the contents of one's shoes! Same with the liquids/uniform requirement. When will the TSA use some common sense!?!
Never At my former airline Richard Reid was refered to as the Shoeicide Bomber. |
Dojetdriver and newKnow are in competition for the coolest avtars. Is it true Bruce Dickinson is a pilot for Net Jets?
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Originally Posted by Sr. Barco
(Post 478054)
Dojetdriver and newKnow are in competition for the coolest avtars. Is it true Bruce Dickinson is a pilot for Net Jets?
He even flew the plane on certain legs of their recent "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. Aviation Photos: Iron Maiden. It's also known as Ed Force One. |
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