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This is a check for knives/guns/bullets, right?

• prawn 16y ago
  I've always wondered re knives - couldn't you just take on carefully pre-fractured plastic that you snapped once on board?
  • devinj 16y ago
    No, you'd take a ceramic knife most likely. Much sharper, and still wouldn't be detected. I suspect the test is more for guns than knives.
    • aberkowitz 16y ago
      Unless you take a homemade* ceramic knife through security, it would be spotted just like any other metal object [1]. * Good luck with that. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnT5INymiY#t=6m40s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnT5INymiY#t=6m40s
    • prawn 16y ago
      Haven't planes been hijacked with Stanley knives (or box cutters or whatever Americans call them)? And if the response to that is locking the cockpit, then what will guns do differently? (Shoot the windows? Could they get the exit row and open the emergency door?) Surely, now, the response to either would be to rush the assailant?