George Patterson wrote:
By Deborah Charles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of airline pilots gave the U.S.
government
failing grades on Thursday in several areas of aviation security
including the
screening of employees and cargo, and defending planes from
shoulder-fired
missiles.

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Sounds like more fear-mongering to me. Unless every airliner is
going to be popping off IR flares whenever they get below 10,000 ft.,
there's not much the Government can do to protect them from a
Stinger-type shoulder fired missile.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)