AUTHORITIES ARREST TWO PEOPLE ABOARD U.S. AIRWAYS FLIGHT SMUGGLING HANDGUN ON BOARD.

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[Dan Nunn]

Great point. I posted too soon when, on this thread, it could have been an accident. Those facts make it look very deliberate.

[kabumpo]

No, I don’t remember — did that happen?

[RobRoy]

I don’t trust the press. That’s why I say things like, “based on what is in the article”, or “if what the article says is true”. ;)

[rdl6989]

That photo is one of the FR all time greats.

[April Lexington]

Someone should post the screen capture of Mel Brooks as an old guy with his wife going through the metal detector with a revolver stuck in the front of his pants. “Ok, so I beeped! I beeped!”

[biff]

Unless they are a gurl, then they are tweety’s?

[Velveeta]

Ping

[null and void]

(I'm not going to rise to the bait and change Twit by swapping the i for an a)...

[divine_moment_of_facts]

It’s my favorite FR photo.. That and Viking Kittie. I wish I knew more about the nuns in that photo.. Circa 1960’s I would guess.

[null and void]

Remember all those boxcutters found stashed on other planes after 9-11?

NO I DON'T AND NEITHER DOSE ANYONE ELSE.

Uh, I mean:

No I don't and neither does anyone else...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***No, I don’t remember — did that happen?***

For about two weeks after 9-11 cleaning crews reported finding several stashes of box cutters on aircraft in the pouches behind the seats.

[null and void]

Yeah. But it didn't get reported much because that would mean that Bush's prompt grounding of everything in the air saved God knows how many lives.

That would make Bush something of a hero, wouldn't it?

[biff]

Oh my gawd, thank you, thank you, thank you! You made me laugh so hard I had tears. You got it and I guess I have a perverted sense of humor. Or maybe just a perverted humer?

[WestCoastGal]

Tweet tweet tweet. Rockin Robin goes tweet tweet tweet.

BTW Twitter is sometimes faster than the TV news. It’s a great place, even FR posts are on there along with many conservative politicians and governors and oh so much more. But don’t tell anyone because it’s getting so big it gets slow from time to time.

[kabumpo]

thanks for telling me — common sense and logic always suggested that exact scenario to me — that some illegal alien working at the airport was their confederate.

[Cindy]

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/19/fbi-investigates-attempts-smuggle-weapons-planes/

“FBI investigates attempts to smuggle weapons on planes”

By HOWARD ALTMAN
Published: June 19, 2009

SNIPPET: “The FBI is looking into whether there is any connection between two arrests - one here and one in Philadelphia - of men trying to smuggle weapons onto airplanes.

The arrests both took place June 4. Both planes were bound for Phoenix.

In Tampa, federal authorities charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a 7-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.

Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways Flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.”

SNIPPET: “On the same day In Philadelphia, a passenger and an airline employee were charged with trying to smuggle a Smith & Wesson 9- mm semi-automatic handgun through an employees’ entrance at Philadelphia International Airport. The plan, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, was for Roshid Milledge, 38, of Philadelphia - a US Airways employee - to smuggle the gun into the airport so that it would be available for Damien Young, 29, of Phoenix, aboard US Airways Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix.”

[Cindy]

Previously...

More info... http://www.kyw1060.com/Gun-Found-Hidden-on-US-Airways-Plane-at-PHL-Airpor/4534304

Posted: Thursday, 04 June 2009 2:07PM

“Gun and Ammo Found on US Airways Plane at PHL Airport”
by KYW’s Tony Hanson

SNIPPET: “Authorities say a gun and ammunition were found inside a carry-on bag on a flight from Philadelphia International Airport Thursday morning. The flight was stopped as it was about to take off just after 7:00am and US Airways employee Roshid Milledge and a passenger, Damien Young, have now been charged in connection with the incident. Authorities say the airline employee allegedly handed the bag with the gun to the passenger as he boarded the plane. The flight was bound for Arizona.

According to preliminary information from investigators, someone waiting for a flight saw a US Airways employee hand a carry-on bag to a passenger beyond the security screening line. After other passengers chatted about what they construed as suspicious activity, at least one person contacted the TSA.”