Airline pilots cite continued aviation security gaps

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Airline pilots cite continued aviation security gaps

By Chris Strohm
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A coalition of airline pilots said this week that there are still "gaping holes" in aviation security despite billions of dollars in improvements and actions taken by the Transportation Security Administration during the past few years.

The Coalition of Airline Pilots Association issued an "Aviation Security Report Card" giving airline and airport security below average or failing grades in nine of 14 areas. The coalition said the gaps "will require major changes in the way the airlines and airports do business and in the way the government manages airline security."

TSA issued a statement reprimanding the coalition. "CAPA's report card amounts to little more than a cheap union publicity stunt," the agency said. "The only thing it demonstrates is that CAPA leaders have been cutting class and missed most of the security lessons of the last year."

CAPA is a trade association of five pilot unions that represents about 22,000 pilots. It is smaller than the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents about 64,000 pilots from 41 airlines in the United States and Canada.

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[Mnemosyne]

1. Thank you Story. This seems more "proof" that those "scary"

terrists" with box cutters might be running around and the importance of keeping the skies "safe" for the USSA, evermore.

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2. The more I see/read the more I get worried

something is up.....

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3. Nothing would surprise me anymore Story,

after you get away with the crap they have, probably think they're home free.

I pray they are not.

Let's hope Instant Karma's gonna' get them!!

:hi: :grr: