[oh8eleven]

I wonder if anyone thought of backup systems .... y’know, like just in case?
Agreed - and how is it just one employee could do so much damage?
The security sounds like it's on par with the security provided by the SS at the WH.

[SkyDancer]

I suppose you can't judge the mental stability of any employee. But then, there must have been a lot of stress on the guy about going to Hawaii - 0bama retiring there could be one I suppose. I like this statement of his:

"'So, I'm gonna smoke this blunt and move on, take care everyone"

Air traffic controller who set Chicago control tower on fire and cancelled 2,000 flights sent final message

[ErnBatavia]

security sounds like it's on par with the security provided by the SS at the WH.

Some TV reporter said yesterday that he took a rolling suitcase with all his arson/suicide gear into the facility.

[Carl Vehse]

The security sounds like it's on par with the security provided by the SS at the WH.

Or the FBI prior to 9/11.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

how is it just one employee could do so much damage? The security sounds like it's on par with the security provided by the SS at the WH.

Good thing the TSA-thugs were there to protect us from grandmas with knitting needles.

[logi_cal869]

The security sounds like it's on par with the security provided by the SS at the WH.

Missing the point: "WE" get anal-probed...the airport workers don't. Anyone with an employee/worker pass has access to secure areas, the security of which (the 'ramp') has been questioned since 9/11 with little change.

Despite the 2001 Aviation and Transportation Security Act, it took 6 years and the Orlando baggage-handler plot in 2007 to bring about the serious discussion of screening airport workers and 'ramp security'.

An airport is a large place with limited employees in secure (non-public) areas. Managing these bodies shouldn't be difficult in this environment.

In the case of the FAA fire, the employee was given a transfer, was seen hauling a wheeled suitcase into his basement work area and no one challenged him. Breach of basic security rules 101: Possible disgruntled employee (transfer) and suitcase brought into secure work area without inspection. Btw, Brian Howard was a contract employee working as a 'field technician' with Harris Corporation...unscreened as he went to work in a secure area. Ironically working to modernize the facility.

Fwiw:
Brian William Howard
1307 Ivy Ln Apt 201
Naperville, IL 60563-0498

Without regard to the FAA facility not being at O'hare, it's clear the focus needs to be on the security - rather, lack thereof - being provided to employees, of both the ramp and critical infrastructure. The FAA facility is a 'secure facility' serving civil transportation. Which goes right back to the larger question of 'ramp security'...which is almost cliche after 13 years of debate/discussion/laws/regulations/inaction...but we're supposed to 'think' we're safe because of all the intrusions upon passengers and efforts to control the populace nationwide.