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  • Skewed air safety priorities

    01/29/2004 8:20:46 PM PST · by neverdem · 1 replies · 152+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | Jan 29, 2004 | Bob Barr
    <p>Two recent incidents involving commercial airliners raise some disturbing questions about the security of commercial air passengers, and about the direction in which the government is heading in response.</p> <p>In one incident, a note found aboard a commuter jet forced its diversion from Washington's Reagan National Airport to Dulles International Airport. The other, a few days later, caused significant delays in flights from France to the U.S. because a woman passenger's jacket contained some wires. The first incident was the result of an apparently deranged person writing an apparently threatening note; the second of a legal piece of clothing with wires imbedded to in it to keep the wearer warm.</p>