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Questionable background checks on workers who fix airliners

Since 9/11, the United States spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, physically checking the passengers who board airliners. — But some are questioning the resources devoted to checking the mechanics that repair airplanes…

In recent years, the number of foreign mechanics being brought into the U.S. to repair airliners has ballooned. But the procedures used to check their backgrounds are meager or non-existent, and can be left to the companies who benefit by bringing them here. MORE