Do we need to require IQ tests before allowing boarding of airplanes? SHEESH!

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COMMENTS: 
*  Good holy God, America. This is embarrassing.
*  Well these days, anything that involves mathematics, science etc..is considered "terrorist" by some of our proud-to-be-uneducated compatriots.
*  Now it seems that any person who has knowledge of intricate mathematics must be some sort of terrorist? This doesn't speak well of how ordinary citizens regard the intelligence of others like themselves.
*  There is a new IQ test now comparing some folks to a serving of sauerkraut. In this case,the sauerkraut won.
*  Good god. Do we really have to pander to the lowest I.Q.'s in the country?
*  As my mother used to say, "We are at the mercy of the dropout"...
*  Fercriskes!  Here's a great idea. Find the dumbest, most frightened passenger on the plane and let her decide whether we can take off or not.  What a total crock of horseshit
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Professor's airplane math didn't equal airplane threat
By Associated Press, May 7, 2016

An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist.

American Airlines confirms that the woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio. She said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight.

Menzio said he was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday night and was solving a differential equation related to a speech he was set to give at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He said the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a flight attendant and the plane headed back to the gate. Menzio, who is Italian and has curly, dark hair, said the pilot then asked for a word and he was questioned by an official.

"I thought they were trying to get clues about her illness," he told The Associated Press in an email. "Instead, they tell me that the woman was concerned that I was a terrorist because I was writing strage things on a pad of paper."

Menzio said he explained what he had been doing and the flight took off soon afterward. He was treated respectfully throughout, he added. But, he said, he was concerned about a delay that a brief conversation or an Internet search could have resolved.

"Not seeking additional information after reports of 'suspicious activity' ... is going to create a lot of problems, especially as xenophobic attitudes may be emerging," he said.

American spokesman Casey Norton said the Air Wisconsin crew followed protocol to take care of an ill passenger and then to investigate her allegations. Norton wouldn't specify the details of the allegations, but said officials determined them to be non-credible. The woman was rebooked on a later flight.
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