Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Do Pilots walk through normal Airport Security?" video.

  1. I have flown frequently on my employer's or customer's business. I often saw pilots and cabin crew going thru the same security checks, x-ray etc as I and other passengers do. I always thought it stupid and due to European Community buerocratic nonsense. After listening to Petter, I still think so. Maybe cabin crew should be screened, but not pilots. Because a pilot doesn't need a bomb or anything - he has full authority over the aircraft controls. If he wants to depressurise the aircraft to disable any crew opposition and fly it into a remote deep part of the ocean, as is suspected happened to an Indonesian airliner a couple of years ago, he can. Yes, as Petter says, a pilot might have been "got at" by a terrorist who has seized his wife and children and forced him to carry a bomb or something. That's true. By the same token, the terrorist who has seized the wife and kids might just as well say "Listen, fly this aircraft to this Congo airfield or your kids get it, slowly." Or "belly land in the Congo jungle or some such." It would be far better to instruct pilots to give some secret code gesture to security, or code word to ATC to tell them that they are under duress.
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