James Oberstar: “We knew that a year ago. We knew very well it was going to be difficult to comply with, but this House, with an…”

“We knew that a year ago. We knew very well it was going to be difficult to comply with, but this House, with an overwhelming vote, supported that legislation, supported those deadlines, because the public insisted on security in our aviation system. The protection for the flight deck, there was an interim measure that has now been in place for securing all flight deck doors, as an interim measure. There is under way with Boeing and Airbus a development of the ultimate flight deck secure door that has yet to be certified by the FAA, although the FAA is in the process of final evaluation, and hopefully yet by the end of this summer they will be able to certify that the flight deck doors proposed by the two aircraft manufacturing companies will be able to withstand all of the assault measures envisioned on board an aircraft. So that piece of the web security is not in place. We do not have positive passenger bag match required on all flights in the domestic service. We do not have a universal biometric system for identifying potential problem travelers.”