Research Paper on:
Airport Security Screening of Commercial Air Crews

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found members of Al Quaida infiltrating the United States by way of obtaining American pilots licenses speaks to the need for each and every person, no matter their status or  tenure with a particular airline, to go through the same security procedures as the passengers do. Moreover, there is no way to be sure someone has not breached all  other security efforts and penetrated Americas safety zone, a point that is made more than clear when one considers the events of September 11th, 2001. International terrorists will stop at  nothing to achieve their primary objectives; if it takes years to reach their goals of destruction, they are prepared to do just that, reflecting one of the most important reasons  why commercial aircrews should be subject to routine airport security screening. Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security since the terrorist attacks upon the Pentagon and  World Trade Centers, a fragile reality that can instantaneously shattered when the inadequate security precautions currently in place finally crumble altogether. "Today, safety and security are global concerns.  Wherever we work, all of us in the aviation community are committed to uniformly high standards - standards that are being raised to higher levels with each passing year" (U.S.  FAA is Improving Security In Three Areas). II. DIFFUSING AN ALREADY TENSE SITUATION Why should commercial aircrews not be subject to routine airport security screening? Is it their  obvious familiarity with the security employees or their inability to be anyone but who they say they are? Clearly, familiarity does not breed contempt in this particular situation, but  rather is breeds complacency, a far greater ill within the airline industry. Just because someone is recognized as being a regular crewmember gives little credence to whether or not