The Transportation Security Administration announced an interim final rule implementing air cargo security regulations.The agency has operated its Certified Cargo Screening Program as a pilot program since February, which helps airlines to comply with the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 that requires screening 50% of all cargo transported in passenger aircraft.
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50 % ????????????This is not very reassuring !The 2nd 50% is what we need to be concerned with…IDIOTS !!!!!!!!!!!!
What this gentleman does not understand that in TSA terms, 50% is not 50% but less than 20%+/- and here is why. The TSA defined 50% as half of the cargo by units not weight as cargo is normally treated. If you had 10 elephants then 50% is 5 of them, but that is not how freight comes. If you had 10 packages or lots of goods and the first 5 weighed 75 pounds each and the remaining 5 were 1 pound each, 50% would mean to the airline that they can screen a total of 5 pounds in lieu of the other 375#’s of cargo and still be compliant. In this way the airlines got to pick and choose what they screened, leaving the screening issue far from the desired 50%. Now that the IFR is in effect all cargo will be screened as of 8/3/10.