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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 09:24 AM

    Lynx

    Yes, I read this column regularly. In my opinion, Mr. Smith is too easy on the airlines. He constantly tries to defend their policies and is against any federal regulation of them. For example, after the incident where a plane full of passengers spent something like 10 hours on the tarmac, he said that calls for regulating the amount of time such things could be allowed to go on were unnecessary.

    Do you read his columns? Do you read between the lines? The idea that an airline pilot who has apparently had some trouble staying employed would write an unbiased column about his employers is ridiculous.

    The only columns that Mr Smith writes that I enjoy are the ones about piloting an aircraft, they are very interesting.

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