Airport and airline security are the methods that are taken to protect everyone, passengers and crew, from accidental or purposeful harm. Airline Security is a good, due to the level of protection that is in place so that you can not bring dangerous objects on to the aircraft; it is also bad because you can't bring many normal objects on the planes unless they are under a certain size because they might be dangerous like shampoos and lotions and nail files or they can only be sent through checked baggage only, like hockey sticks and fishing poles. To get through to your plane now a days, you have to go through several different scans and procedures, you have to go through a metal detector to make sure that you are carry any thing sharp or pointy, then send your bag through a check where they are able to see the contents and see if anything will cause harm to anyone aboard the plane. Plus your name is also sent through an international list called the no-fly list to see if your poses a threat to any countries, better hope your name doesn't match someone who is on the no-fly list or no plane trips for you. Airline security is been a big issue for some people because they say that it is too harsh, due to the no-fly list that even if your name match's that of someone who is on the list your not allowed on the plane and that you can not take normal objects such as a nail file on to the plane. Everyone has a different opinion on how the airline security should be run and on how tough it should be on certain things and I think that airline security should not be as tough as it is, like it should allow for someone to take their nail file on the plane.
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| The Beginning of Airline Security |
Airline security started back in the 1960's after there were a few hijacking. It didn't really get harsh until after the three terrorist attacks on the September 11, 2001, where terrorist hijacked four planes and then flew them into the World Trade Centre towers and the side of the Pentagon, the last plane was headed for the White house but crash landed by the passengers in a field in Pennsylvania. Shortly after 9/11 the United States form their no-fly list and began sharing with there allies. Some countries charge a small fee with the purchase of tickets to keep their no-fly list up and going. Everyone was feeling good about the levels of security that was in place at airports, you weren't allowed to bring dangerous weapons aboard, but then some how on the 25th of December in 2009 a young man got through security and got on to his plane with a bomb strapped to himself but he failed to exploded it properly. This attempted attack made the United States look into their security protocols and this lead them to the use of metal detectors and full body x ray scans. All countries with major airports now use the same technologies to detect dangerous objects and the United States decided that it was in the best interests of the whole world for them to share their no-fly list, and this way they also get names of potentially dangerous people from other countries that they don't know about yet. To get on the no-fly list you either had to pose a threat to international security at one point in their life, but when they first got the list started they where putting names on the list if the person had a super low or really bad credit score.
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| No- Fly list Logo |
Some people from around the world saying that the extreme amounts of security are an invasion of privacy because it has strangers going through their personal belonging to see if there is anything dangerous among their things. They think that it should just be enough for them to send it through a metal detector and then if the metal detector goes off then give them free right to look through the stuff. There is also much controversy on the no-fly list, there are many people that believe that it was a bad idea because if there are multiple people with the same names then they will run into problems if the other person with that name is on the list. There was an eighteen-month old baby who had the same name as someone on the list, security at the airport said that the child was not allowed to go through due to the fact that his name was on the list. The child and his parents were taken in by security and questioned and after hours of his parents arguing with security about the fact that their baby was not a terrorist, they were let go and by that point they had missed their flight.
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| Airport Security |
I believe that airline security is in place for a reason and if the guards what to search my stuff before I go through to the plane then so be it, I want to be safe and I want to know that I am safe. The guards at the airport are only allowed to take something that they thing will cause damage or could be used as a weapon, so its not like they are just going to take some money from my stuff. I also think that people should be okay with having security checking there things unless they have something to hide from the guards that they think might be dangerous or they know will be taken away from them at the gate. I do think that maybe they should be a little more easy going about taking things on board like a nail file or nail clippers, cause you can't cause hardly any damage to a person with a nail file.
I believe that that the no-fly list should have some work done on it, like maybe they should a little more solid evidence on whether or not they are a threat to international security, because not everyone with a bad credit score will be a terrorist, some may have good credit scores. Terrorist are generally pretty intelligent and some have even gone to school in the states and then they go back and blow it later.
After extensive research I still think that airport security is a good thing because it provides us with great protection when we are on the plane because being in that small enclosed space for extended periods of time you want to know that there is nobody on there that might try to fly you into a build purposefully or blow up the plane mid-flight. I also still think that they should be a little more relaxed about what is being allowed on to the plane. My points of view wouldn't change society at all because I do like the way that things are being done at the airports right now, it makes me feel safe and secure.
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