Box Cutters on Planes 5 Weeks, FBI Says

[Boomhauer]

Box Cutters on Planes 5 Weeks, FBI Says
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Oct 20, 12:55 PM (ET)

By CURT ANDERSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - A college student told federal authorities he placed box cutters and other banned items aboard two Southwest Airlines (LUV) planes nearly five weeks before they were found, according to an FBI affidavit.

The affidavit, obtained by The Associated Press, said Nathaniel Heatwole, 20, told agents he went through normal security procedures at airports in Baltimore and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and was able to carry the forbidden items onto the planes.

Once aboard, he hid the items in a compartment in the rear lavatories of two planes.

The first bag was carried on in Raleigh-Durham on Sept. 12 - the day after the two-year aniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks - and the second on Sept. 15 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, the affidavit said.

Each bag contained a note detailing when and where the bags were carried aboard, as well as modeling clay simulated to look like plastic explosives, matches and bleach hidden in sunscreen bottles.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031020/D7UA16TO0.html

 

[bart]

My take on this is that weapons are not the issue, but the people that use them. When are we going to quit wasting time and money screening for innocuous, so-called weapons and start screening for Arabs?

As much as people would like for you to believe it, frickin' box-cutters did not hijack airliners September 11th, Arabs did. The box cutters sitting on a plane for 5 weeks proves this point.

 

[Flying Illini]

Life is not fair, and it isn't supposed to be...

exactly! Heck, life isn't meant to be PC either...too much PC is going to kill some more people.