FAA to require transponders on all aircraft passengers

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

At 13:50 -0700 8/4/96, Bill Stewart wrote:


>My guess about how they'll be used is to replace the bar-code
>stickers used by many baggage-handling systems - they'll stick
>one on at checkin, corresponding to the number on your ticket,
>track them when they load them on the plane (so they know
>that all the bags correspond to people expected to get on the plane,
>as well as knowing the bags are getting on the correct plane),
>and track the tickets to make sure that all the people expected
>to get on the plane actually do get on (I think they use bar-code
>readers or OCR today, and that'll probably continue.)

They better hold off loading the containers with the luggage until they
lock down/up the plane so they can verify who got on (and can pull any
unaccompanied luggage). It is either that or unloading the plane if there
is a missing passenger.