Here’s a confidence-builder: All 141 pas sengers and crew members aboard a JetBlue flight about to depart JFK last weekend had to be evacuated because Transportation Security Administration screeners missed three box-cutters stashed in a passenger’s carry-on bag.
As The Post’s Philip Messing reported, Jersey City factory worker Eusebio Peraltalajara boarded the plane with the razors, which he’d stowed in a carry-on after work and then forgot about.
TSA agents never noticed them.
Indeed, the razors were only discovered when they fell to the floor after a flight attendant asked him to stow his bag in the overhead compartment.
The attendant immediately raised an alarm, prompting a full terrorist alert.
But why did the TSA agents miss them in the first place?
Were they too busy checking the see-through scanners for a few salacious glimpses of “naked” passengers?
Maybe they were simply asleep.
Either way, it was an inexcusable lapse in security — coming as the FBI continues to uncover terrorist networks in this country eager to repeat 9/11.
A TSA spokeswoman insisted that passengers on the flight were never at risk.
Some comfort.