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Subject: Re: Flying public gets white knuckles over TSA plans Posted on: 04 Nov 2005 17:15:59 CST

In message <21fnm1hiq2kc61gnce8iuq2akp7jqcsjeu@news> security checkpoint
wrote:

>http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53968.htm
>AIR-HEADS READY TO ALLOW BLADES
>By GEOFF EARLE and IAN BISHOP Post Correspondents
>
>November 4, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — The flying public turned
>white-knuckled yesterday over word that the feds might ease post-9/11
>restrictions to allow passengers to bring scissors and small knives
>aboard planes again.
>
>"I'd like to know why [knives] are no longer a threat when they were a
>threat over the last four years," fumed Rep. Joseph Crowley
>(D-Queens), whose firefighter cousin was killed on 9/11.

Assuming cockpits are not locked, knives basically aren't a threat.

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