Posted on 03/06/2007 3:44:51 PM PST by mfnorman
I don't think it was a test. I'm just wondering now how they are going to search passengers.
Always a good idea to carry a magnet with you when you go on a plane trip.
I sure hope the airlines has some sort of contingency plan for having 4/5/6 middle eastern males lined up to used the lavatory..such as "turbulence" that requires passengers to sit down etc..
You obviously missed the Northwest Airlines thread yesterday...which was "pulled".
Off-duty NWA worker charged with assault for in-flight incident
I agree and now we have to wonder, if congress in their great wisdom allows these screeners to unionize.....Just how many TSA agents will it take to search a cavity?
By the time they figure out whose job it is and if they get "hazzard" pay, it just might be too late.
See Post #41
LOS ANGELES: An Iraqi immigrant with a suspicious device stuffed into a body cavity was detained at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday and a Philadelphia-bound jetliner was diverted to Las Vegas because his luggage was aboard, authorities said.
The device and the luggage were cleared by bomb squads in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
"There never was a threat," said Larry Fetters, security director at Los Angeles International Airport for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
Fadhel Al-Maliki, 35, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was held for a mental evaluation and for a possible immigration violation, federal officials said.
Al-Maliki is a permanent legal resident who came to the United States in 1994.
He had flown into Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Monday and was booked for a Tuesday return flight when he was chosen for extra security screening. He triggered an alert during the secondary screening and immediately told screeners about the device he was carrying, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
"He initially said it was therapeutic," she said.
The device had a wire and what may have been a magnet concealed in his rectum, federal officials said.
It did not contain any explosives, Eimiller said.
Al-Maliki said he had flown to Los Angeles for a visit but details were unclear, Eimiller said.
The terminal remained open during the incident and no takeoffs or landings were affected but a US Airways jet en route to Philadelphia was diverted because Al-Maliki's checked luggage already had been screened and put aboard the plane.
Flight 1422, carrying 143 passengers and six crew members, landed at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas about 8:30 a.m.
The Airbus A320 was searched in a secure area away from terminals and cleared about noon to continue to Philadelphia, said Chris Jones, an airport spokesman. Passengers were given options to resume their flight aboard the jet, stay in Las Vegas or return to Los Angeles, he said.
BWAHAHAHA. Assload.
He will do fine until he sits on a metal bench and can't get back up.
Iron **** maybe, a lead **** isn't magnetic!
Seriously, that isn't going to be acceptable, so how are we going to screen?
Well, I might have considered that if he had been flying out of San Francisco rather than LA.
Any reason you aren't over here lecturing these people?
High five ????
Did you realy say High five to the screener.
Yuck. I feel really bad for the screener who had to perform this "high five."
weird.
To my knowledge, its not even illegal to bring on a magnet onboard.
Proably he brought the magnet as a proxy test for what he really wanted to bring on board. The next time, it wouldnt be so harmless as a magnet.
Ha...put him in a MRI scanner and turn the power on....magnet promptly exits though body at high speed.....like in an electromagnitic rail gun.
Your right!
Remember how they had to check all our shoes after they caught the guy with the shoe bomb?
Now their going to have to check all our "lower body cavities" every time we fly
At least he alway knew where north mecca was.
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