<P> Ticket counter agents were required to ask two questions of passengers checking luggage: </P> <Ul> <Li> Have any of the items you're traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them? </Li> <Li> Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item aboard the aircraft? </Li> </Ul> <Li> Have any of the items you're traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them? </Li> <Li> Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item aboard the aircraft? </Li>

The aviation and transportation security act of 2001