At 07:16 AM 10/19/95 -0400, Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science wrote:
Without actually agreeing with the FAA, the reason you can't have a name other than your own on your ticket, as well as why you are required to be in your assigned seat on take-off and landing is because if there is a plane crash, they need to be able to identify an otherwise difficult to identify body. This does have some relevance to airport security if a plane is blown up.
So, since planes were much more likely to crash in 1957 then they are now, I suppose that you *really* must have had to prove your identity to get on a plane in those days. DCF "Who wonders who's going to blow away the Gremlins eating the engines of *today's* planes since the passengers have been disarmed." Too much Outer Limits/Twilight Zone/Science Fiction Theater as a kid.