Originally posted by makeitso
They sure seem pretty serious about it.
All passengers must be hand searched and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened.
In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central
screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered must be removed from the passenger.
Reference
Shortly before Ramsey Yousef was caught, he flew on a Philippine Airlines 747. After he disembarked in the Philippines, and the flight continued on
to Japan, there was an explosion onboard, killing a Japanese buisnessman. It was later determined that the explosive had been hidden in a bottle of
contact lense cleaner, with a new type of detonater that had been specifically developed for this operation. This flight had been a test run for
Operation Bojinko, and deemed a failure, however, it only failed by a matter of inches. The seat that Yousef had been assigned was the last seat over
the main wing spar. One seat over and he would have been directly over the center wing fuel tank, and the plane would have exploded killing everyone
instantly, with no one figuring out what happened as the plane was over open ocean between the Philippines and Japan.
That's the reason they are confiscating liquids from passengers.
[edit on 8/10/2006 by Zaphod58]
