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United, Continental pilots cleared to call a strike vote http://t.co/XHMVSB5v After teen's fatal fall from jetliner, Congress questions airport security : http://t.co/u5uJrNxb AA flight attendants make their case in court http://t.co/G5ApWkvL #aawfaa U.S. Congressman says next terror attack involving an airliner will 'come from the ground' http://t.co/d0hf6NKa Airline food: Trying to make it fly | Travel | The Seattle Times: http://t.co/pXfgj8Iy
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JetBlue removes 18 month from departing flight. Reason? The toddler’s name appeared on TSA’s NO FLY list. Fort Lauderdale, FL ~ Eighteen month old Riyanna and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an airline employee approached requesting they leave the plane and return to the inside gate area. The New Jersey family was told representatives from the Transportation Security Agency wanted to speak to them…… Full story from South Florida’s WPBF.com (click here)
Airport security confiscates cupcake because icing a security risk TheNewsStar.com PEABODY, Mass. – A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk. Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them...
Ventura sues over body scans, pat-downs Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to “warrantless and suspicionless” scans and body searches. The lawsuit, which also names Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano...
Embarrassing JetBlue snafu! Airline pilot loses gun and flight gets grounded Airlines losing luggage is nothing new, but at JFK Airport Thursday, a JetBlue pilot lost his bag - and his handgun. The Transportation Security Administration is probing Michael Connery Jr. after an embarrassing mixup nearly sent his government-issued firearm to Florida, while he was due to fly to Pennsylvania. Connery, who is licensed by the TSA to pack heat in the cockpit, was the scheduled co-pilot on an 8:10 a.m. flight out of JFK to Pittsburgh, law...
Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners Secret Tests At LAX, O’Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs ABCNews.go.com Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight. He didn’t realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose “baby” Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the...
By Tom Breen/AP RALEIGH, N.C. — New airport security procedures that have prompted complaints around the country amount to a violation of constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by a Durham lawyer. Jonathan Blitz filed a complaint in Raleigh federal court against the Transportation Security Administration on behalf of himself and his family. The lawsuit said the new full-body scanners at airports violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and that the pat-downs offered in lieu...
After failing TSA screening, flier in wheelchair (and her underwear) leaves Okla. Yesterday, wearing only a black bra and panties, a 52-year-old woman who uses a wheelchair missed her flight out of Oklahoma City. She failed the security screening. Transportation Security Administration screeners told Phoenix-bound Tammy Banovac her wheelchair, luggage and clothes showed traces of nitrates, which can be used in bombs, The Oklahoman reports. After more than an hour of hand searches and interrogation, she was told to come...
Note: I’m providing readers here with a few “Fish” tidbits. Click below links for the big ‘Fish’ blog. As told to blogger Steven Frischling, aka “Fish”. Read this article and more at The Boarding Area/Flying With Fish www.boardingarea.com/flyingwithfish TSA Enhanced Pat Downs : The Screeners Point Of View By Steven Frischling In the past few weeks since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implemented its new “enhanced” pat down procedures there has been considerable backlash from the traveling public. This backlash...
You are witnessing the death of an industry. What the eco-freaks could never do — drum up significant support for mass transit — the TSA has done in just one decade. Donna Trussell- Contributor Hard to believe there was a time when flying was glamorous, but glamorous, exciting and sexy it was from the 1940s through the 1960s. Stewardesses wore cute little suits, and passengers dressed up too. Airline meals weren’t great, but they sure beat the tiny bags...
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – A Charlotte-area flight attendant and cancer survivor contacted WBTV after she says she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down. Cathy Bossi lives in south Charlotte and has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, working the past 28 for U.S. Airways. In early August Bossie was walking through security when she says she was asked to go through the new full body-scanners at Concourse “D” at Charlotte Douglas International. She...
Passenger Records Refusal for TSA Pat-Down An Oceanside man recorded a confrontation he had with an agent at Lindbergh Field on Saturday regarding the TSA’s new enhanced pat-down searches at airports. John Tyner of Oceanside said he arrived at the airport around 6 a.m. and stood in line for the metal detector at the security checkpoint. Because no one was in the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machine, Tyner said he was pulled out of the metal detector line for the new...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY! What is National Opt-Out Day? It’s the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government’s desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an “enhanced pat down” that touches people’s breasts and genitals. You should never have to explain to your children, “Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it’s a government employee, then it’s OK.”...
Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures By Christopher Sign, ABCNews15 PHOENIX – A flight attendants union with 2,000 members is upset over what it calls “invasive pat-downs” recently implemented by the TSA. “We’re getting calls daily about peoples’ experiences, our members are concerned,” said Deborah Volpe, Vice President of the Association of Flight Attendants Local 66. Volpe confirmed that the union is offering advice to its flight attendants, who mostly work for Tempe-based USAirways, involving the security...
This is a letter from Captain Ed Bates, the president of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 11,000 American Airlines pilots, to his members, in which he calls on pilots to refuse back-scatter screening and demand private pat-downs from TSA officers. Bates’s argument is multifaceted and extremely cogent. He worries about increased exposure to radiation, of course (a big worry among commercial pilots) and he is eloquent on the subject of intentional humiliation: There is absolutely no denying that...
“In a recent episode, the Air Transport Association said, a flight from Europe to the U.S. was about to depart with at least six marshals already on board in multiple cabins when a rival carrier canceled a flight. Marshals from that flight came over to demand first-class seats on the flight that was leaving. The airline refused, saying it would cancel the flight rather than empty the first-class cabin. Marshals backed off, airline officials say. Mr. Minerly of the...
Ex-Delta Flight Attendant Wants Job Back By George Franco, MyFoxAtlanta.com ATLANTA – A former Delta flight attendant was busted in Indianapolis with a gun in a carry-on bag. Amber Robillard talked about her ordeal Thursday and said she hopes to get her job back. In June, Robillard was arrested in Indianapolis for a pistol in her carry-on luggage. “I was shocked. I was stunned. It was absolutely my worst nightmare,” said Robillard. Robillard said she forgot about the gun....
Rochdale man ‘took 200 fireworks on US plane’ BBC News- Manchester An airline passenger claims he was allowed to take more than 200 fireworks on two flights in the United States. Paul Jones, 29, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, flew across the US from Kansas to Houston and back to the UK with a bag of bangers – and a lighter. It was only at Heathrow Airport that officials expressed concern, he said. Continental Airlines said it did not have...
From Ask the Pilot, everything you need to know about commercial flying TERRORISM, TWEEZERS, AND TERMINAL MADNESS: An Essay On Security An excerpt from “AskthePilot.com” ………….. But of all the contradictions and self-defeating measures TSA has come up with, possibly none is more blatantly ludicrous than the policy decreeing that pilots and flight attendants undergo the same x-ray and metal detector screening as passengers. What makes it ludicrous is that tens of thousands of other airport workers, from baggage...
~Updated with news footage~ Kristi E. Swartz, Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Delta Air Lines flight attendant preparing to board a plane bound for Atlanta was arrested after authorities found a handgun in her purse. Amber Robillard, who lives in Atlanta, was stopped at the Transportation Security Administration security screening checkpoint at the Indianapolis airport and arrested after they discovered the gun, Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said. Robillard, 39, did not fly to Atlanta with the rest of the crew on...
Miami Airport Screener Accused of Attack Over Jeers at Genitalia Miami, FL – A Miami airport screener, agitated at continued ribbing after colleagues saw his body parts in an imaging scanner, attacked a colleague, police said. A Miami International Airport federal security screener has been arrested for allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker. The source of their conflict, police say: daily ribbing about the size of the screener’s genitalia. Screener Rolando Negrin’s private body...
