[Senator Pardek]

The warning went out after two flight attendants said their uniforms, crew-bag tags, flight attendant wings, flight books, ID cards and a key to an airplane storage compartment had been stolen from their New York apartment.

If ya get on a plane and there's a bearded stewardess aboard - get off.

[cricket]

Most hotels, motels have lock-boxes for security items; why don't they use them? Or leave them in safety boxes at the airport; surely something can be done to make this less oppostunistic. . .

. . .and do they use fingerprinting for ID entry to the planes? (probably not. . .makes too much sense. . .)

[Lysander]

The FBI usually couldn't be bothered with investigating minor break-ins at a hotel.

That's right. They have been too busy looking for pot heads and other threats to our morality...

[dawn53]

Here's my tin foil idea.

We pretty much all agree it would be impossible for the terrorists to again hijack a plane in the same manner as before. The passengers will fight back.

So their next option would be to maintain fake ID, pilot or stewardess uniforms, etc. and board as crew. Then make their way into the cockpit, at which time the door is secured behind them.

Securing the cockpit, as the airlines have done, may actually now give them an advantage, because if they can get into the cockpit, they can keep everybody else out and fly the plane into "whatever."

[XHogPilot]

PERFIDY! - To deceive through faith, one of the most vile, yet effective, tools of warfare. A terrorist does not need to don an airline uniform to hijack an airliner. But, a uniform certainly gives anyone (or any group) the appearance of a trusted professonal. Flight crews (pilots and flight attendants) must all go through the same screening as passengers to gain access to the operations side of an airport. Additionally, all US airlines have additional identity screening in place to control access to the aircraft. That being said, however, putting on uniforms is certainly a simple way for a group of 10 to 20 terrorists to wheel 30lb (flight)bags of explosives and weapons concealed in luggage into a crowded, unarmed, airport ticketing area! Who would pay them the slightest attention?

Our nation is at war, pay attention out there!

[japaneseghost]

That means the islamists are planning on using females in their next set of hijackers. This really doesn't sound good.

Or were these stolen credentials from male flight attendants?