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Air security: why you're as safe as you think.(CR INVESTIGATES)
One Sunday evening last March, a baggage handler was loading up an Airbus jet when he noticed that a passenger's bag was burning.
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Officials halted the flight, found the passenger, and told him they were taking all of his baggage off the plane for rescreening before the flight could continue, the captain said in a report to federal aviation officials.
In the burnt bag, authorities discovered a suspicious bundle of wires and a video game battery pack. The captain, meanwhile, thought the passenger's behavior was suspect. He had a one-way ticket, volunteered to be removed from the flight without being asked, and said he would fly another day.
"Had we left the gate on time, we would have been airborne when this bag ignited," the report noted.
The captain complained in his filing with the federal Aviation Safety Reporting System that there was no security followup although many questions remained: "Who was this individual? Were his actions intentional? Why was his behavior so abnormal?"
Despite an extensive security effort since the 2001 terrorist attacks, those kinds of questions are still being asked with alarming frequency at U.S. airports.
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