Bomb Threats

[CPT Tripss]

Today there was a threat against an Egyptian Air flight and a Frontier flight. In these and other recent threat situations, authorities kept people on the plane while it was searched. Then they evacuated the aircraft and searched the pax. This seems bassackwards . . . Get pax off, search, clear and evacuate them and then conduct a thorough search of the plane. Why do the authorities increase the risk to passengers?

 

[jlewisinsyr]

Were you privied to the bomb threat? There could be very valid reasons, including the threat the passengers could not be removed.

I know you are very critical about TSA and other security organizations, but jeez.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Today there was a threat against an Egyptian Air flight and a Frontier flight. In these and other recent threat situations, authorities kept people on the plane while it was searched. Then they evacuated the aircraft and searched the pax. This seems bassackwards . . . Get pax off, search, clear and evacuate them and then conduct a thorough search of the plane. Why do the authorities increase the risk to passengers?

Tripps as usual you discount things that are going on behind the scenes, there could be any number of reasons they waited. For one, the threat may have had instructions not to unload passenger and they needed to check this out before they unloaded passengers. There could very easily been others.

Sorry , again you jumped the gun here and have no facts to back up your comment and it shines as just another attack on the TSA.

AKK

 

[kaytieeldr]

Well, the Frontier Airlines situation information in the original post isn't accurate, according to this http://once.unicornmedia.com/now/ad...o Land Following Alleged Bomb on Boardreport: The flight was en route from Knoxville to Denver when a passenger claimed he had a bomb.

Another report (http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2013/jun...after-security-threat-frontier-a/?partner=RSS) states "When the jet landed just after 7 p.m. Friday, it was taken to a remote area of the airport and the passengers were bused to a nearby fire station to be interviewed by FBI agents."
Evacuating passengers into thin air would have been much riskier than a purported bomb.

Read the article.

There was no bomb, or bomb threat, or bomb scare, on the Egyptian Airlines flight. A passenger found a note in the bathroom where the author threatened to set the plane on fire and alerted the flight crew immediately.
It appears from this report http://m.arabianbusiness.com/egyptair-in-emergency-landing-after-fire-threat-505249.html that, again, passengers were evacuated from the plane after it landed.

Facts are your friend .

eta: whatever the original poster thinks of the TSA, (1) there was no bomb on the Frontier flight, aka nothing slipped through security; and (b) the TSS has no authority, effect, or influence on Cairo or any other airport outside the United States and its territories/possessions.

 

[jsilvers]

Facts are your friend .

eta: whatever the original poster thinks of the TSA, (1) there was no bomb on the Frontier flight, aka nothing slipped through security; and (b) the TSS has no authority, effect, or influence on Cairo or any other airport outside the United States and its territories/possessions.

Actually, (b) is not exactly correct; although the TSA has no direct authority over airports outside the U.S., it does have considerable effect/influence.

Notably, U.S. law requires the TSA to inspect foreign airports from which flights depart to the U.S. to ensure that their security standards are adequate. If the airports do not meet standards- or do not allow the TSA to conduct inspections - the U.S. can take actions such as requiring notices to passengers or outright prohibiting flights between that airport and the U.S. A recent government report which generally addresses this subject can be found at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d12163.pdf; an example of notices to passengers being required (for Venezuela) can be found at http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2008/09/08/tsa-issues-advisory-travel-venezuela

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

Today there was a threat against an Egyptian Air flight and a Frontier flight. In these and other recent threat situations, authorities kept people on the plane while it was searched. Then they evacuated the aircraft and searched the pax. This seems bassackwards . . . Get pax off, search, clear and evacuate them and then conduct a thorough search of the plane. Why do the authorities increase the risk to passengers?

Never let facts get in the way of your conclusions.