Washington DC November 12 2019 The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to establish self-service security checkpoints at US airports, Nextgov reports. DHS is seeking proposals from companies to build systems that would allow travellers to conduct their own security screening. Passengers would run their own bags through an x-ray machine and pass through body-scanning […]
NEWARK, N.J. Nov 2 2019 Transportation Security Administration agents at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport uncovered a more decorative than deadly item when they checked a passenger’s carry-on. After a man’s carry-on bag entered the checkpoint X-ray machine on Tuesday, a TSA officer spotted what they thought was a revolver. TSA needed to get to the […]
Minneapolis MN October 31 2019 The newest checkpoint at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport is closing down, airport and federal officials say. The screening area is on the skyway between the InterContinental Hotel and Terminal 1. The Transportation Security Administration said the hotel checkpoint will close on Nov. 18. Clifford Van Leuven, federal security director at […]
Washington DC October 29 2019 A private Facebook page with more than 18,000 current or former employees of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has included comments critical of passengers and managers, some with racist, violent or crude overtones. A News4 I-Team investigation found a series of posts and exchanges in which members of the group […]
PHOENIX AZ Oct 28 2019 — Two men have been arrested for allegedly impersonating DPS troopers to attempt to enter the airfield at Sky Harbor International Airport. According to court paperwork, around 10 p.m. on October 21, two men followed a Phoenix police vehicle “through a secured gate and onto the airfield area” at Sky Harbor. […]
Detroit MI October 24 2019 Detroit Metro Airport is opening its terminals to some people without boarding passes. As security has grown tighter at the nation’s airports, people dropping off or picking up passengers flying in or out have been stuck on the other side of the TSA security checkpoint. But a new pilot program […]
Tucson AZ October 21 2019 A man was arrested after claiming to have a bomb in his car after driving onto the Tucson International Airport’s airfield during a chase with police early Friday morning. Tucson Airport Authority police received reports of a driver on the airfield around 1:20 a.m., said TAA spokeswoman Jessie Butler. The […]
ORLANDO, Fla. October 8 2019– A woman was escorted off a plane at Orlando International Airport Sunday after boarding a Delta flight to Atlanta with neither a ticket nor identification. A passenger said she called a flight attendant to her assigned seat when the woman refused to move. “She said very bluntly, ‘I’m not moving,’” […]
PHILADELPHIA PA October 3 2019 The actions of a Philadelphia police officer are under review after a new mother claims she was harassed and issued a “retaliatory” parking ticket for breastfeeding her daughter. Caroline New took her baby daughter Amelia with her to pick up her sister Sunday afternoon at the Philadelphia International Airport. It was […]
CHICAGO IL October 3 2019 A burglary suspect was in custody after he climbed a fence at O’Hare International Airport while fleeing from police, and was discovered cut and bleeding at a hangar on the airfield. Sources said a small group of burglars smashed through a brick wall at the T-Mobile store on Irving Park Road […]