Follow up thoughts on the Flight 253 bomb scare
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 18:44 On the news tonight, there were a couple of stories related to the bomb scare on NWA Flight 253, in which a Nigerian man with apparent ties to Al Qaeda wore explosive laced underpants and attempted to ingnite them on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
At the top of most discussions, is what we can do in the way of security in the airport to deter such attempts in the future.
My husband is a retired airline captain, and together we’ve flown a lot over the years - pre and post 9-11. Having gone through the complete body scan technology this year in Salt Lake City, I can say with confidence that I did not feel that it was ‘intrusive’ or an invasion of my privacy. But then I’m perhaps a little less concerned with ‘who sees what’ than some folks. The fact that I’m nearly 60 with a sagging tush and a missing breast due to cancer leave me completely unconcerned that I’m being used for ‘peep show’ purposes. I’m also not trying to hide contraband or explosives.
If after all of that, ‘they’ really want to look, have at it. I think it’s preferable to standing in the secondary security -“look at the geek!”- zone waiting for a female TSA agent to be available for a ‘pat down’.
