In the early 60's airport security wasn't even an issue. Nothing was checked going on to the plane. Back then people felt secure, and safe. But as time went on, people started to threaten others on board. Sometimes even holding passengers and even the flight crew hostage. According to a CNN TV Show "Airline Security Special Report" (Nov, 2001). In 1983, a plane was hijacked. Except in this high jacking, the highjacker got violent. After this incident happened, all carryon baggage was to be scanned and checked. This made the flyers feel a lot safer, and for a while stopped the high jacking. As time went on though, the highjackings got more sophisticated and more violent. Before 9-11-01 people felt safe to fly, but then we found out how easy it was for the highjackers to get the weapons on the plane. This is why I believe that airport security needs to get better.
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The first thing, in my opinion, that needs to be changed, is checking the main luggage that goes under the plane. Yes the carryon luggage gets looked at good, but according to Gerald Martineau (2001, Nov.5) "Don't Settle For C+ on .
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Security" P.34-35 Newsweek, 95% of the time, the main luggage going under the plane isn't checked. That means 5% of all the luggage is checked. A person could easily put a bomb on their main luggage, and have it go off in the air. You would think this would have changed by now, but do to the cost of the machine that checks bags, and do to it's bulky size, only 50 out of the 450 nation wide airports have the machine. The machine costs over 1.5 million dollar. With what's been happening with the air lines lately, the airports cant afford the machine. Some of the airports that have the machine don't even run it some of the time. Luggage has got to start getting checked better, or else we will regret in the future waiting so long for the technology. In 1988, flight 103 going from London to America, blew up over Scotland.
