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well, during the day of 9/11 guess where all of the stranded plains in the air unable to enter the US went? Right here in newfoundlans air ports. (Newfoundland being a island)
now normaly we only get small pasanger aircraft, most often the biggest carrying 80 people.
Then one day we have 70+ plains landing of every size with over 13,000+ pasangers, mosty around the St. John's and Gander Airport (btw, gander has only 1 set of lights in all of town). Oddly enough we had a plan in place on how to deal with this type of seneriao............. and it worked flawlessly, untill we had to find somewhere to put these people for the next few days. So every hotel room was booked, then schools started to be set up to house people, as we where running out of schools peopled started offering their homes for the people to stay.
now how tight do you think security could be with such a huge rush (compaired to what we normaly get) of people in such a short time when they are scrambeling just to find places for the people to sleep.
Also one time we had 3 or 4 US steal aircraft land here after crossing the atlantic, now then security was tight.
Yes I know!
On the 9/11 my wife (she's a Flying Assistant) was flying to New York and the flight was diverted to Hallifax (which I already knew from my Portuguese Navy days) and stayed in Truro - all of this in Nova Scotia, if my memory serves me well!
It was a hell of a day! At least for me, without any real and reliable info - until 8PM!
And back to Airport Security - I have completely different experiences in the US airports and Immigration guys (from the Hard guy to the Normal Person) and even got a smile, once - only to discover that he stamped on a page already signed and stamped by him, a year before - coincidences!!!
On arrival home, my bags usually have a paper stating that my luggage was choosed to be inspected... could it be the model parts that make any confusion to the X-Ray machine guys??
Resin and PE
I understand why it is done - It's for my security!!!
Skipper
