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Originally Posted by Rob
I've always wondered why the rules get so paranoid that baggage can't travel if the passenger doesn't get on a flight, so it has to be removed.
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In part it is known as passenger reconciliation, it is a security measure in place to ensure that luggage is accompanied by a passenger travelling on the same flight, these rules were in place before the Lockerbie Terror attack happened in 1988, however, Pan Am at Heathrow, apparently didn't carry out this process or failed to notice that there was no passenger accompanying the luggage when the Boeing 747 which exploded over Scotland.