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Show World&Nation Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 Page 12 Pilots among dismayed at scanners & pat-downs CHICAGO (AP) — Airport security stops one airline pilot because he's carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from body scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can't fly at all when he likens an intrusive body search to sexual harassment. Annoyance at security hassles has been on the rise among airline crews and passengers for years, but the widespread use of full-body image detectors this year and the simultaneous introduction of more intrusive pat-downs seems to have ramped up the frustration. As passengers have simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or rigorous pat-down inspections, some airline pilots are pushing back. Much of the criticism is directed at the Transportation Security Administration. "I would say that pilots are beyond fed up," said Tom Walsh, a pilot and sometimes aviation security consultant. "The TSA is wasting valuable time and money searching the crew — who are not a threat." Even one of the nation's most celebrated pilots, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, has detected the growing unease. "The fundamental reason is that airline pilots are already the last line of defense for anyone who poses a threat to the airplane," said the soft-spoken Sullenberger, who successfully ditched his US Airways plane in the Hudson River last year after it struck birds during takeoff. "We are — and would like to be considered — trusted partners in that important security mission." The scanners show a body's contours on a computer stationed in a private room removed from the security checkpoints. A person's face is never shown and the person's identity is supposedly not known to the screener reviewing the images. Under TSA rules, those who decline must submit to patdowns that include checks of the inside of travelers' thighs and buttocks. Top federal officials said Monday that the procedures are safe and necessary sacrifices to ward off terror attacks. "It's all about security," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "It's all about everybody recognizing their role." That's not how John Tyner sees it. The software engineer posted an Internet blog item over the weekend saying he had been ejected from the San Diego airport after being threatened with a fine and lawsuit for refusing a groin check after turning down a full-body scan. He said he told one federal TSA worker, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." "I told the person that being molested should not be a condition of getting on a flight," the 31-year-old said in a phone interview Monday. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (TSA) Administrator John Pistole, right, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, speaks to the media at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport on Nov. 15. AP photo Building tragedies devastate China and India, killing 119 BEIJING (AP) — Two of Asia's most dynamic and fast-growing cities were struck within hours by disasters that devastated a pair of apartment blocks and underscored the challenges faced by both China and India as they try to enforce safety and building codes amid torrid economic growth. In Shanghai, welders apparently ignited a RELATIVES BURN BELONGINGS of their relatives who were killed in the Monday fire on an apartment building in Shanghai Nov. 16. AP photo blaze that engulfed a high-rise, while in New Delhi it might have been monsoon rains or an illegal new floor that caused the building's collapse Monday. The two tragedies, thousands of miles (kilometers) apart, killed at least 119 people. Indian and Chinese cities have expanded at breakneck speed over the last few decades, buoyed by growth that has swelled the middle class and brought waves of rural migrants seeking better opportunities. The pace and scale of the building boom has been head-spinning, and is not expected to slow soon. Investigators looking into Monday's blaze in Shanghai say unlicensed welders misused their equipment, accidentally starting the fire that quickly engulfed the 28-story apartment building. Police detained eight people Tuesday as they investigated the blaze that killed 53 and sent 70 to hospitals. In New Delhi, the five-story building pancaked, killing 66 people and injuring scores. Neighborhood residents said the landlord was adding an unauthorized floor to the 15-year-old building to pack in more migrant workers and their families. An official said monsoon rains may have weakened the structure. Maria Chen, China representative for ICF International — a management and technology consulting company based in Fairfax, Virginia, that helps companies in China become more energy efficient — said the rapid pace of construction inevitably leads to disasters such as the fire in Shanghai. "Part of the problem is just the scale of magnitude," said Chen. "Every year China is putting up 2 billion square meters (2.4 billion sq. yards) of new building space ... That's 50 times Manhattan's office stock." So China is putting that many buildings on the ground, quickly, and with minimal (safety) enforcement. That's really one of the overarching problems — and also developers desire to make quick money." India and China have produced high growth in sharply different ways. China's more government-directed capitalism excels at topdown directives and mammoth infrastructure projects. India's urbanization has been more chaotic with greater scope for private entrepreneurship. But they are both running up against basic problems in their race to modernize: shoddy construction, lax enforcement of building codes, and rampant corruption. In India, the result has been glass and steel high-rises and thickets of crowded low-rise buildings and shanty towns. Callous building contractors flout existing laws while unscrupulous government officials ignore illegal constructions of poor quality that meet the soaring demand for cheap housing. With land prices spiraling out of control in New Delhi, builders stack additional floors onto their buildings without getting the required clearances or by paying bribes to get officials to turn a blind eye — which residents alleged is what happened in Monday evening's disaster. The building, housing hundreds of people, was located in the city's congested Lalita Park area. Emergency efforts were hampered because vehicles had difficulty navigating the neighborhood's narrow alleyways. Officials ordered the evacuation of at least one other nearby building with a flooded basement that they feared could collapse. In China too, real estate prices in mega-cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have spiraled, yet residents often worry about the integrity of new gleaming buildings that are built fast and with little apparent attention to quality. Silence isn't golden for engine-maker Rolls-Royce LONDON (AP) — Silence has not proved golden for Rolls-Royce, the maker of an engine that blew apart on the world's biggest commercial jetliner this month, shooting metal scrap into the wing and setting off a plunge in the British company's stock price. Rolls-Royce has limited itself to just one vaguely-worded public statement since the Nov. 4 accident on the Qantas A380, a strategy that analysts say may be causing more damage to the British company than the incident itself. The almost 10 percent drop in the share price has wiped around $1.5 billion off the value of the company since the blowout on the superjumbo. Some analysts say the plunge may result less from concrete evidence of financial trouble than investors' uncertainty and unanswered questions. Aviation officials have identified an oil leak near a turbine as the flaw in the massive Trent 900 engines. Rolls-Royce has been speaking regularly in private to A380-maker Airbus and the airlines that use the Trent 900 about the impact on the superjumbos in service and the scores due for delivery to airlines in corning months. But its public response has been a different matter. Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce was quick to call a press conference and has spoken out many times since the accident. Rolls-Royce's longtime CEO John Rose hasn't directly addressed the public yet. And the company has declined comment on virtually every question from the press. Months after BP executives spectacularly mismanaged their early response to the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill by promising quick fixes and making unguarded comments, Rolls-Royce appears to be treading more warily. The engine issue is not on the scale of the Gulf oil spill, either commercially or politically. Still, the two companies, among the last of Britain's major international players, appear to have mishandled their responses, analysts said. "Both companies have suffered due to inadequate crisis communication," said Jonathan Hemus, director of reputation management and communication consultancy Insignia. Part of the problem may be the reserved corporate culture of many British firms. Those in crisis tend to be shy of making too many public announcements too soon, unlike American firms where the mantra of immediate public response to emergencies is nearly universal. The advantage of communicating was highlighted on Friday when the company put out a statement saying the problem was linked to an unspecified single part and outlining a plan of action to replace it. Rolls-Royce's shares jumped 4.6 percent in a day — almost halving a 10 percent wipeout over the previous week. The relief at a plan of action even outweighed an accompanying profit warning. Then the stock started taking more hits Monday as the Londonbased company, which declined to comment on its communications strategy for this report, returned to its no-comment stance. The world's second-largest engine-maker offered no response to reports that entire engines would be replaced on several A380 aircraft in use by Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Germany's Lufthansa — reports that made the company the biggest faller on the blue-chip FTSE-100 index with a 2.5 percent loss. 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