Maybe I wasn't as thorough as I should have been inspecting luggage.
It typically has a staff of people who check passports and visas and inspect luggage to assure that contraband is not imported.
The law created a federal security force to inspect passengers and luggage, causing long delays and concern over passenger privacy.
Customs: Airport police and customs officials routinely inspect incoming and outgoing luggage, even for in-country travel.
That's when all 429 commercial airports in the United States are required to have in operation huge bag-screening machines that are supposed to inspect checked luggage for possible explosives.
Employees of airlines are not authorized to inspect luggage.
Airport police and customs officials routinely inspect incoming and outgoing luggage.
The agency also ordered parts for 50 more of the devices and adjusted its previous order for free-standing InVision equipment that inspects carry-on luggage to include more large-capacity models in the mix.
At the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada, security guards seemed to be closely inspecting hand-carried luggage in the search for small weapons that might have escaped their attention in the past.
At Kennedy, customs officials, who have 133 agents on duty at the airport to oversee cargo warehouses and inspect luggage, say there is no limit to smugglers' ingenuity.