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From the article: "our bags had gone to Chattanooga" After all that, they dropped the ball on the sensible security measure of never allowing bags to fly withou

• throwawayReply 10y ago
  That measure isn't very effective against people who are willing to include themselves in any explosion. That's not to say it isn't effective against more traditional threats such as Pan-Am 103 after which those measures were introduced.
• CPLX 10y ago
  That's not actually a security measure any more. Bags fly without owners all the time, for example when you check in late and the bag misses your flight and gets on the next one. The prevalence of suicide attacks made the idea of bag matching as a way to prevent bombings somewhat obsolete. They still do remove bags from the flight if you miss it, ostensibly for this reason, but at least in theory they solve the problem of explosives in bags by scanning and searching checked luggage as well, which they didn't used to do in the old days.
  • dogma1138 10y ago
    They do but they are also separately inspected. The normal SOP even for the shoddy US airline security is when a passenger with checked in luggage doesn't board the flight the aircraft is to be deboarded and the luggage searched. This is twice true when the passenger has been taken out of the flight by airport security even tho in this case it was utter stupidity and abuse.