March 2, 2011 Man takes boxcutters onto flight
Three TSA screeners at JFK airport are being sent for “remedial” training after a man was found to have three box cutters on a Jet Blue flight.
The incident occured last Saturday on a flight to the Dominican Republic. As the passenger was stowing his bag in the overhead, the boxcutters fell out. He said he uses them for his work and forgot they were there.
The entire flight was rescreened and left three hours later.
I feel so safe knowing TSA is on the job.
(Frank II)
Frank@OBOW
From USA Today:
The TSA says that despite the breach, other measures put in place in recent years are meant to thwart those with ill intentions.
“There have been a number of additional security layers implemented on aircraft since 9/11 that would prevent someone from causing catastrophic damage with small cutting devices,” the TSA says in a written statement to AP.
The news agency writes that the TSA “cited armed air marshals, bulletproof cockpit doors, pilots carrying firearms, flight crews trained in self-defense and ‘a vigilant traveling public who have demonstrated a willingness to intervene.’ “
(If this is so, why do we have to go through the nude-0-scopes and subject ourselves to invasive patdowns?—Frank II)
Reader Comments (5)
and delaying the flight for 3 hours should not be done...