Long, but please read:
Up in the Air
http://www.houston-press.com/issues/2004-10-14/news/downing.html
The link you posted is a MUST-READ for anyone who plans to fly. What the heck has to happen for the idiots in charge of airline safety to understand PC BEHAVIOR HAS GOT TO STOP. It appears they require a multitude of deaths from this cause before they are prepared to take corrective action (profiling ME people -- you know, the ones who vow to kill Americans -- that's for the dense airline safety people's thick skulls). Homeland Security indeed!