1. Pan Am baggage containers were not secured against tampering while awaiting loading. 2. Divers are also hunting for a large metal baggage container, the last of four that had stored luggage in the forward hold. 3. In addition, the FAA will pay for test models of baggage containers that can withstand a luggage bomb. 4. One example of that came last week, when the FAA approved a blast-resistant airline baggage container made by Telair International Inc. of Rancho Dominguez, Calif. 5. The FAA tried out a baggage container hardened with a substance that resembles Kevlar, the material in bulletproof vests. 6. The original purpose of the tests was to try out new designs of baggage containers and compartments to make them resistant to bombs. 7. They have the baggage containers. 8. Passengers said the train was so crowded, people who had bought tickets were sitting on the floor or stretched out in the overhead baggage containers. 9. Investigators matched passengers to all but one piece of luggage in the baggage container. 10. -- The FAA would provide blast-hardened airline baggage containers to be used on a prescribed basis of risk. |