Suitcase Security
June 29th, 2010
When you go to an airport, is your suitcase security checked as well as your hand luggage?
I've always wondered this- and before anyone answers, I'm not up to anything illegal or risky- I am purely interested in what happens 'behind the scenes'.
When you go on an international flight one of the first things you do is check in your suitcase, which disappears on the conveyor belt behind the desk. You don't see it again until your destination (with luck!). What happens to it in the mean time?
Your hand luggage is viewed by X Ray when you walk through the metal detector, having emptied out your pockets- so what happens to your suitcase? It surely must be checked in some way?
Note: Surely it cannot go completely unchecked?! Your suitcase might be jammed full of TNT, heroin or machineguns!
They dont check the suitcases that go in the luggage hold which is ridiculous cos all a terrorist has to do is check a bag and put a bomb in it (Then get on the plane - presumably he plans to die so no red flags go up when a passenger doesnt turn up)
The security thing is ridiculous - they may as well not bother to check hand luggage and people goin g through security if luggage in the hold isn't checked
To the respondents who say everything is checked: State your sources please. You are mistaken
Edit: To Asker: Airlines are not concerned with drugs - immigration is concerned at the other end. They have sniffer dogs. It is a fact that cargo and freight ar only randomly checked and Baggage is randomly checked 80% of baggage is UNCHECKED. This is a fact and the thumbs down I have been receiving is cos the other peeps are shooting the messenger cos they don't like bad news.
ALL FREIGHT CARGO AND BAGGAGE IS NOT CHECKED. Can you imagine the cost of manpower to do that for every flight??
Say, 1,000 bags (two/three per passnger) on a full 747 with only two hours to do it in, during check in??
Practically nothing is checked that goes in the hold
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