[Rhodes22-list] Take This Job and Shove It!

[Brad Haslett]

Slim,

Just stumbled across this - dateline today.  Brad


NEW YORK (CBS News) ― The joint FBI-Homeland Security bulletin, obtained by
CBS News today, bluntly warns that terrorists are still working to use
"modified footwear as a concealment method for explosive devices," CBS News
correspondent Bob Orr reports.

The alert follows the discovery of bomb detonators - expertly hidden in the
hollowed-out soles of this pair of shoes - found aboard a European bus last
month.

Intelligence officials say the shoes were not being worn at the time, but
instead were being used, as the document says, "to smuggle electric blasting
caps across international borders for use in a terrorist attack."

"The terrorists have an interest in explosive devices. They are trying to
figure out the best way to push them, to move them through the system," said
CBS News counterterrorism analyst Paul Kurtz.

Shoes have been used by terrorists before.

Three months after 9/11, al Qaeda operative Richard Reid tried to blow up an
American Airlines jet with a shoe bomb similar to the one shown in this
test.

Now at U.S. airports, scanners X-ray all passengers' shoes and carry on
bags, searching for explosives.

Still, experts worry that a team of terrorists could beat security by
carrying unassembled parts of a bomb past a checkpoint.

"Where one person will carry component A, the next person will carry
component B, and they will meet together past the safety point, past the
checkpoint and reassemble," explained Mike White, the director of training
for Michael Stapleton Associates and a former head of the NYPD bomb squad.

Officials say there is no specific intelligence that terrorists are
preparing new attacks against America.

But, the threat remains high - and the bulletin warns law enforcement
officials not to assume that routine objects, like shoes, are always what
they appear to be.



On 10/25/07, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I'll bite.  What does the TSA hide from us that I should worry about?
>
> On 10/25/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Slim,
> >
> > Much too do about nothing!  NASA has had a reporting process for years
> > where
> > pilots could anonymously report problems without fear of certificate
> > action.
> > I've use it several times.  This telephone poll was no different. Really
> > serious problems get run up the flag pole at the union level.  If you
> want
> > to worry about something, worry about all the things the TSA hides that
> > we're powerless to do anything about.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Brad,
> > >
> > > You probably saw the report this week from NASA about all the safety
> > > concerns that apparently are much worse than the public knows.  So
> much
> > so
> > > that they refused to release the info for fear of panicking the public
> > and
> > > costing the airlines gobs of money in lost revenue.  Some one privy to
> > the
> > > report sited many more bird strikes, more near miss mid-air
> collisions,
> > > more
> > > near miss ground collisions, etc.  They collected most of the data
> > > interviewing pilots.  Have you found this to be the case?  Frequent
> > fliers
> > > want to know.
> > >
> > > Slim
> > >
> > > On 10/25/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hank,
> > > >
> > > > They keep the engines spooled.  If you notice, they were flying at
> > flaps
> > > > 22
> > > > to keep the speed down.  Anything more than 22 the jet automatically
> > > > retracts the flaps to keep from overstressing them and you get a
> > > constant
> > > > horn without the gear down.  I'm guessing they're doing about 150
> > knots
> > > at
> > > > the dump. Not only is FOD a problem but I wonder how much engine
> life
> > > they
> > > > get running all that soot through the compressor section.  We were
> on
> > > > break
> > > > when I met them so we only got to visit for about 15 minutes.  They
> > were
> > > > an
> > > > interesting bunch.  I'm happy to stick with moving rubber dogshit
> from
> > > > point
> > > > A to point B.
> > > >
> > > > Brad
> > > >
> > > > On 10/25/07, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Brad,
> > > > >
> > > > > That is insane!  With the jet engine power lag, I would think that
> > > would
> > > > > be
> > > > > an extremely dangerous way to make a living!  What about FOD
> flaming
> > > out
> > > > > the
> > > > > engines?  Is that a risk?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hank
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/25/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I met these guys last year while teaching in our old DC-10 sim
> in
> > > > Miami.
> > > > > > They're nuts!  Brad
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a7_1193165376
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