Knife found under seats on Delta flight from S Korea to Japan

The screening process has become lax over the years.

Was to be expected. Guards can be vigilant only for so long.

Seriously?! What an over-reaction!! The odds are overwhelmingly in favor of a maintenance worker dropping or forgetting it. Until that can be ruled out, why the big fuss in the news? Gotta keep people scared so they will submit to the b.s. screening procedures without complaint.

Perhaps sabotage by a disgruntled cleaning crew member.

Gotta keep people scared so they will submit to the b.s. screening procedures without complaint.

This is an ignorant comment. It would have been irresponsible of authorities not to investigate any possible breaches of security. They don't care what the odds are according to you.

Mookoo at 07:55 AM JST - 10th November Seriously?! What an over-reaction!! The odds are overwhelmingly in favor of a maintenance worker dropping or forgetting it. Until that can be ruled out, why the big fuss in the news? Gotta keep people scared so they will submit to the b.s. screening procedures without complaint.

I'm with you here. I think the new body scanners are a complete outrage, and while you're not "forced" to submit to them you'll be viewed with suspicion if you don't. It's like a witch hunt where any response other than complete submission and obedience to the whims of the airport staff is sufficient to get you locked in a room and interrogated for hours. It's become ridiculous.

The terrorists have already won. Our way of travel and life have been changed forever. My guess is that it got through lax security and the owner stashed it when they discovered that they had it. Just a guess.

Folded knife doesn't look like a knife, hence can easily pass through x-ray. Why is police investigating the incident? technically airport and airplane are international space. omawari-san's should have no jurisdiction there.

Sounds like someone's little penknife fell out of their pocket and went down the back of the seat.

When they take stuff away from you and put it in a box and label it, they put them in the walk way after you put your boarding pass in. Very easy to pick up what they took as well as other peoples stuff.

i don't see why they even bother. after 9/11, there is no way the passengers are going to let anyone hijack a plane with just a knife.

Now that's where that got to - I've been looking for it all day!

Well, a few years ago, Delta's slogan was

Delta is ready when you are!

So I guess this is all in their business plan.

Much ado about nothing. Some passenger panicked because his carry-on contained a small knife missed in the screening process and just tucked it away. What lame-brained over-reaction this is.

Personally, I'm all for heightened airport security. I can live with having to get to the airport a little earlier to go through all the security checks if it means less chance that someone's going to be able to sneak a weapon or explosive device onto my flight.

they do have a passenger manifest..........just ask the person who was on that seat. i wonder why people still pack a box cutter when they travel though .

Wouldn't it be funny if people like mookoo and frungy here who hate to be screened at airports happened to get on one of those flights that had a clean shaved non-Muslim terrorist looking maniac with funny things like C4 explosives in their shoes etc..I wonder how long people like this would be laughing once they found out they had a nut case terrorist on board. Hopefully these knife incidents are nothing but, I would much rather be safe than sorry.