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Woman Got Loaded Gun Past TSA: Report By Jason Sickles Example of a Ruger .380 (Yahoo! News) (Pic in URL) At less than six inches and just under 10 ounces, the Ruger .380 is considered by gun owners to be a great little pocket pistol. So small, in fact, that you can sometimes get one onto an airplane. D'oh! Yep, the New York Daily News reports that a woman flew 938 miles from Orlando, Fla., to Newark, N.J., on Thursday with a loaded .380 in her purse. United flight 15 was airborne before she realized what she'd done—and airport screeners...

A Republic Airlines flight attendant showed up to work Sunday at Philadelphia International Airport with a loaded gun in her bag that accidentally discharged, US Airways told NBCPhiladelphia.com. A US Airways spokesperson confirmed that the employee headed through airport security at Terminal C around 6:50 a.m ET with a gun inside her carry-on bag. A police officer was called over to check out the gun. That's when it accidentally discharged, the spokesperson said. The bullet went into a TSA break room where an employee was sitting. No one was injured, police said. The flight attendant allegedly told police that she...

In the latest scandal to rock the perpetually inept Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a loaded gun slipped through “security” at a major U.S. airport and the agency claims there was no system breakdown because it was not its duty to intercept the weapon.This may lead Americans to wonder who is responsible for securing the nation’s transportation system. After all, Congress created the monstrous TSA, with 50,000 employees, to protect mainly aviation after the 2001 terrorist attacks. In the name of security, travelers go through a circus-like routine that includes invasive pat-downs, body scanners, removing shoes and giving up liquids to...

The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm. Orlando Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out from TSA screening. "All of our due diligence shows it's the way to go," said Larry Dale, the director of the Sanford Airport Authority. "You're going to get better service at a better price and more accountability and better customer service." Dale says he will be sending a letter requesting to opt out from TSA screening, and instead the airport will choose one of the five...

Shooters, I apologize for the vanity, but I could use some advice from any of you who have already dealt with these issues. The short version: I plan on flying out to AZ from FL in a few months, and I want to take a few guns along. Up to now, I've either driven or used what my relatives had there. I've reviewed the TSA website for its regs, as well as other sites for information of a more, er, "practical' nature (thefiringline.com, thehighroad.org, etc.). Lots of good info there, but I've run into a few snags: 1) What's a...

The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that screeners at Gallatin Field near Bozeman inadvertently allowed a passenger with a firearm in his carryon luggage through security last month. The unidentified man realized he had the gun when he was in the boarding area Dec. 13 and turned himself into TSA officials. Gallatin Field Board Chairman Dick Roehm said the TSA re-screened every passenger at the airport, including those on a Horizon Air flight that had left the gate but had not yet taken off - delaying three flights for more than an hour. The gun was turned over to local...

Federal officials yesterday deported a Moroccan man on the no-fly list who was taken into custody Saturday after his Washington-bound flight was diverted for security reasons. The passenger carried an expired Portuguese passport, a revoked U.S. work visa, and was aboard Air France Flight 026 to Washington Dulles International Airport — the same flight grounded four times because of a terrorist threat in February. Neither his name nor that of his flying companion, who left the country voluntarily, were released. Homeland Security officials did not name them when asked. CNN identified the passengers as Ahmed Lhacti, 47, and Mohammad Oukassou,...

ExcerptST. THOMAS - Ten employees at King Airport - ... - have been indicted on federal charges that they were part of a drug ring that distributed millions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroin to Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. ...the conspirators would bring suitcases containing cocaine and heroin to the airport. After legitimate luggage containing no questionable items made it through Customs and X-raying, the conspirators sometimes removed the computer-generated routing tags from the bags and placed them on the suitcases containing drugs.

WASHINGTON - Concerned that airline travelers are increasingly vulnerable to terrorist missile attacks, the government is developing plans to equip commercial airliners with the same protective countermeasures that military pilots use to fend off enemy missiles. Thousands of easily concealed shoulder-fired missiles are within quick reach of terrorist groups from the world's black-market arms bazaars. In August, FBI agents arrested a British citizen in New Jersey suspected of trying to peddle a Russian-made SA-18, a newer-generation surface-to-air missile. "As of today," defense analyst Loren Thompson said, "commercial airliners are naked against the potential of such a threat." Last week, the...

Suspicious device found in terminal. A,B,C serve Alaska, NW and Southwest. Developing.

Police Detain Two Passengers on Dominican-Bound Flight After Suspicious Behavior The Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic Jan. 5 — Two Canadian men were detained for suspected links to terrorism after acting strangely aboard a flight from France to the Dominican Republic, authorities said Monday. The two were detained after Air Europa Flight 89 landed in Santo Domingo Sunday night, said Gen. Fernando Cruz Mendez, director of national Investigations. They have not been charged and authorities did not find any weapons, Cruz said. "They acted very nervous on board," he said. "They went in and out of the bathrooms, including...

<p>January 5, 2004 -- Federal air marshals intervened in 840 cases of suspicious passenger activity during a two-year period starting the week of the 9/11 attacks. That's 40 percent of the total 2,100 incidents involving air marshals.</p> <p>A congressional investigation into how the marshals are doing their job also shows there have been 28 arrests or detainments of passengers and three cases where marshals discharged their weapons.</p>

Egypt Plane Crash Kills 148; Technical Fault Blamed By Ruben Sprich Reuters Saturday, January 3, 2004; 7:15 AM SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner carrying 135 mostly French tourists crashed into the Red Sea off the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday and a rescue team member said there were no survivors. "The initial indications are that it was a technical fault, but that is only preliminary," Civil Aviation Ministry Secretary-General Hassan Abo Ghanima told Reuters. He had said earlier: "There is no sign of terrorism." The plane, operated by the Egyptian company Flash Airlines,...

Local news just flashed that an Egypt Airliner has crashed in Egypt... Reporting majority of ~135 passengers are French tourists....

D.C. local Channel 4 reported on their Six o'clock news that the head of the Dulles Airport TSA was arrested at 1 a.m. this morning for drunk driving.Last night was an eventful one at Dulles with British Airways Flight 223 being escorted by fighter jets and then being detained on the runway while federal agents interviewed passengers and screened luggage.Looking for wire copy, but they said this was an exclusive.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A woman allegedly tried to choke a federal air marshal after she became disruptive on a flight from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis, authorities said. The air marshal approached the woman, who was allegedly intoxicated, vocal and obnoxious aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 1057 on Tuesday, Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said. After the woman continued to be disruptive, she tried to choke the marshal in a later exchange, Marty said. She also kicked the marshal in the groin and bit a law enforcement officer after she was escorted off the plane, Marty said. The flight landed at 8:30...

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETINTerrorists plot shooting down airlinersOfficials see increased threat from shoulder-launched missiles Posted: November 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Transportation Security Administration officials say they believe terrorists will continue to plot attacks against commercial airplanes in the United States and abroad – including the use of shoulder-launched missiles, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.Officials identified the threat from terrorists equipped with shoulder-launched missiles, called man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, as one of "credible concern." They said that MANPADS are "widely" available on black or gray markets around the world and that even an unsuccessful MANPAD attack...

Wed, October 29, 2003 Jet attack tip from Mossad VIPs aboard T.O. El Al flight By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN Canadian security officials yesterday revealed details of the threatened terror attack on an Israeli passenger jet enroute to Pearson airport last week. While the El Al Boeing 767 was in the air Thursday, Mossad agents in Tel Aviv notified airport and Canadian security agents that al-Qaida operatives were planning to attack the jet with a surface-to-air rocket, officials said. "The tip originated from the Mossad," one senior federal official said, speaking on condition they remain anonymous. "They believed it was...

(IsraelNN.com) El Al flight 105 to (Toronto - Los Angeles) has been diverted from Toronto to Montreal by the control tower due to a “security alert” according to the El Al spokesman. There are no details. The plane landed in Montreal without incident and is now refueling to continue. The 767 jumbo was carrying 180 passengers when ordered to divert. El Al is making arrangements for the 44 Toronto passengers to reach their destination. In addition, 45 passengers in Toronto will be brought to the plane to continue with the flight.