On 28/12/13 21:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
> Millions of people travel by air in the US every day, and this doesn't 
> happen every time, or even close to every time.  It might be interesting 
> to see what percentage of travelers actually have problems like this 
> going through security checkpoints at US airports.  I'd wager it's 
> significantly less than 1%, and probably significantly fewer than 1 in 
> 100,000.
> 
> Jim
> 

You are, of course, absolutely correct. However, let's put your estimate
down at the low end - say 1 in 1,000,000. There are approximately 1.5
million passenger flights per day in the US, therefore there may be 550
such incidents every year ... and (realises that there are 150
murders/day in the US) <stops>

Anecdotal evidence is a bitch to deal with. Gimme hard stats.

Still a little bit of training and better selection (not in that order)
wouldn't go amiss.

John
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