TSA Blows it: Cannot Catch Boxcutters from going onto JetBlue Flight

Well after all the "junk touching," million dollar scanners, long lines, forbidding liquids from getting onto planes and general unpleasantness of flying the TSA cannot stop the iconic weapon of choice in the 9/11 attacks from getting on an airplane.

The Transportation Security Administration is sending three screeners for remedial training after a passenger carried three box cutters onto a JetBlue plane at New York's Kennedy airport.

The box cutters fell out of the passenger's carry-on luggage as he was stowing it in an overhead compartment on Flight 837 to Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on Saturday night, authorities said. Police evacuated the flight and questioned the passenger, who said he used the box cutters for his work and had forgotten to take them out of his bag.

That is exactly why the wide-net approach is not working. I'm pretty sure this man could have gotten felt up, went through three body scanners, and the rubber glove treatment and these box cutters would still have been on the airplane. It was a mistake in the baggage screening that caused this screw-up to happen.  I mean if the box didn't fall out of his carry-on he could have went all the way to his destination without any trouble.

All the remedial training in the world won't prevent this from happening short of forbidding carry-on bags. And if that happened there would be a strait-up mutiny against the airlines. The sad part is that the lone Islamic nutjob attack would be far more common and easier to pull off then another attack involving the taking over airlines to use them as flying missiles.