The other day when I took a friend to the airport, I realized that there is a serious flaw in the security system. I made a crude computer drawing so that you can have some sort of an idea when I describe my plan to blow up a plane.
Terminal 2 at Sky Harbor International Airport is not a high traffic area. It flies out mainly Continental and United Airlines, along with a couple others. Because it is not an area of significant interest, there has not been a lot of money spent on security (this will become obvious in a minute).
When a passenger goes to board a flight, they leave the ‘Waiting Area’, walk past the ‘Wall of Serious Flaw’, and weave their way into the ‘Security Threat Detection Area’. Non-passengers are not allowed to approach or go past the ‘Security Threat Detection Area’. They may, however, stand and watch passengers through a glass wall (represented as a solid black line south-east of the ‘Wall of Serious Flaw’).
From what I understand, once passengers are cleared in the ‘Security Threat Detection Area’, they may board their flight without any further in-depth checking. This is where the plan comes into play.
The ‘Wall of Serious Flaw’ is made up of stand-alone panels that look like extra tall cubicle walls. You know the stuff–carpeted, metal rim around the edge, feet support at the base. These types of walls are used a lot in public schools. Because they are stand-alone, they need base support. The corners at the bottom of the base are not squared off; they curve upward to make room for the feet. Although each panel is placed close together and you can not see through them, there is a hole about the diameter of an 8 oz. soda bottle at the base of each wall joint.
As you all know, liquids are banned on flights nowadays because some people tried to make an explosive out of them. Well how easy would it be for an adult passenger to “drop” his bag on one side of the wall, and a child to be playing on the other side? No one would think twice about a child sticking his hand through the hole, and no one would think twice about an adult picking up spilled belongings. Anything could slip through the hole, and it would go unnoticed.
Of course, one soda bottle full of explosives would not be enough to blow up a plane. But multiple soda bottles would. There are only 2 security guards working at a time during the off-season (I’m not sure if there are more metal detectors or not, but for the majority of the year there are only 2) in Terminal 2. Once the break rotation is figured out, you could have an “accident” every break change. I’m guessing they rotate every other worker (not both at once), but this is not a problem. You just can’t have the same guard notice two “accidents” in less than 6 hours. It would be okay every 7 hours though, because the odds are more likely.
So if you start feeding the potential martyrs through at say, 9am, for a 10pm flight, it would give you plenty of time to feed at least 4 other people through for the same flight. For the earlier passengers, I would recommend buying 2 tickets: one for an early flight, and one for the 10pm flight. This would remove suspicion because checking in for a flight 13 hours early is a little suspicious.
So my friends, as you can see, little details like these are why terrorism can never be stopped in America.
Cheers!
