So why stop at airplanes? Why not subway trains, elevators, Starbucks?
Is it because someone tried in an airplane once? Tried and failed? Would you change your mind about Starbucks if someone tried and succeeded?
The whole point of that article is that you can’t design around extreme edge cases. If we used shoe bomb security theater logic around all aspects of flying, there would be no airline industry.
Sadly, for some people out there, any part of the process not swaddled in shoe bomb security theater is an opportunity to kill dozens of innocent people just waiting to be taken.
Is it because someone tried in an airplane once? Tried and failed? Would you change your mind about Starbucks if someone tried and succeeded?
The whole point of that article is that you can’t design around extreme edge cases. If we used shoe bomb security theater logic around all aspects of flying, there would be no airline industry.