Can I ask a really stupid question that has probably been asked before?
Aren't there way more people standing around being delayed in a screening area than on any plane?
Why would a terrorist even have to make it through screening?
Aren't there way more people standing around being delayed in a screening area than on any plane?
Why would a terrorist even have to make it through screening?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airpor...
Getting control of a plane can make significantly more damage.
> “The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching”—ensuring that people can’t put luggage on planes, and then not board them —“and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insan...
For it to happen again it would probably have to be done by people who don't blend in with the crowd going through security. For instance, an employee. Even then, chances are it would have to be a pilot or someone who can gain access to the cockpit during flight.