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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (198581)	11/1/2001 1:11:10 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

September 11 was also an FAA failure - The failure to police Logan Airport security - The failure to enact regulations prohibiting the use of any knife. The FAA was asleep at the switch Airlines were interpreting the knife issue (and of course it was simply possession, not use) differently. Some had lower limits than the FAA and I've heard from somewhere (unable to verify by article) that they were able to and in fact did ban knives on some airlines. Regulations are fine for minimums (or in this case maximums - 3 inch blades) but there is nothing keeping the airlines from going further except will. As I mentioned before they don't allow those same knives in courtrooms in CA, where incidentally the judge may be armed as well as the Baliff. It's a good lesson to see how security is treated in a closed environment like a courtroom/courthouse.