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Re: Terrorist Tries To Blow Up NWA Flight(Re: Oh noes! Bad news for Luch) |
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Posted by Charles G on Sat Dec 26 15:50:55 2009, in response to Re: Terrorist Tries To Blow Up NWA Flight(Re: Oh noes! Bad news for Luch), posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Dec 26 00:05:15 2009. Then what do you do about someplace like Lagos, where I bet they don't screen (or do a cursory look at them for bulging bags or pockets)?I've flown out of Lagos -- March 2001. Here was my security experience. Arrive at flight counter 9:30PM for an 11:45 PM departure. Get the once over with a hand-held metal detector. Check bags. Head over to the passport control area. At passport control, they check your ticket and passport. They open all of your carry-on and go through it (to the point of finding one of my wife's bras buried in the corner of my carry-on -- I was traveling alone and a bit embarrassed....). Through a stand-up metal detector and then one more time get a once-over with a hand-held. Proceed to the gate. About two gates before the departure gate, I am instructed to go down a set of stairs onto the tarmac. There, in nearly complete darkness and with a few soldiers bearing automatic weapons I am told to identify my checked bags in order for them to be loaded onto the plane. Back upstairs where I wait for boarding to begin. Finally, once the flight is boarding they go over each passenger one more time with a hand-held. I haven't flown out of Lagos in 8+ years now, but can confidently say that a blanket statement that they don't try is false. Unfortunately, part of the need for the multiple checks is that there are likely gaps which weren't apparent to me. |
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