Nope. Didn't work. The explosive failed to detonate. The passengers reacted. The “system” wasn't present. The “system” was groping some paraplegic grandmother somewhere.
These people make me ILL to my stomach. They are going to have hundreds of gallons of red American and visiting foreigners' blood on their hands within a year, I predict, on our own soil if they don't wise up YESTERDAY and start in with the "El-Al system". And they will have every excuse in the world why they are not at fault after such an attack--even though they will be at fault. An honorable even if incompetent Japanese government official in charge of national security on watch and overseeing such administrative errors during such a disaster would go home and hang himself in solitary remorse over the death of innocents on his hands. Within three nights after such an aircraft explosion by a terrorist in American skies, why these pathetic little Beltway people will be laughing and yucking it up oover during Happy Hour at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on Connecticut Avenue. Most civil societies would react and physically remove such people from positions of authority and run them out of town on a rail in civilized, olden days.
Instead, we will probably subjected to TSA *testes checks* right there in the airport, even for 90 year old American Christian geezers and Medal of Honor winners, but they won't lift a hand--under threat of a CAIR lawsuit--to check under some Third World muslim jehadist's abaya or hijab.