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The other day, we told you about how a spilled coffee was mistaken for a hijacking threat. Today we bring you … the “suspicious” bagel. A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment. That “suspicious [...]
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What happens when a pilot spills his coffee? Apparently the plane thinks it is being hijacked. (via Gadling) A pilot’s spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, to make an unscheduled stop in Canada. A Transport Canada report said United Flight 940 was diverted [...]
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Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, has had it up to here with the horse-and-pony show of airport security requirements required for all European flights headed to the United States. “America does not do internally a lot of the things they demand that we do,” Broughton said in comments quoted by the Financial Times [...]
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Though it probably won’t break any of Avatar‘s box office records, a new documentary from “retired aviation publisher” Fred Gevalt will document the history of the watchdog that protects our friendly skies. This in-depth look at the Transportation Security Authority (TSA) is called Please Remove Your Shoes and comes out on July 1, although Gevalt will [...]
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