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Airport Security Between 1949 and 1989 there were more than 95 explosions aboard commercial aircraft around the world, killing 2,217 people. One of the major hijackings was the bomb aboard Pan Am 103 in 1988 resulted in the deaths of 270 people, 11 of whom were killed by falling debris on the ground. If the explosion aboard TWA 800 was the result of a bomb, 500 people headed for or leaving from New York will have been murdered by these two events alone. Yet in …

…can be seen on X-ray. And passengers need not spend any more time at security stations than is now spent if security personnel are trained adequately and passengers are advised as to what to limit in their hand baggage. In fact, what is now being suggested publicly is more, much more, of the same, and if we buy it, air travelers will continue to suffer more of the same security problems before and after take-off.