A 22 year man who works (worked?) as an Airport cleaner at Detroit Metropolitan Airport came up with a novel idea to impress his 18-year old girlfriend. Right after midnight, he brought his girlfriend with him to work (using his own security badge to pass through the security doors) and took her on a Northwest [...]
Archive for November 10th, 2008
Don’t try to impress your girlfriend like this!
Posted in Airports, Planes, Security on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Birds force jet’s emergency landing!
Posted in Airlines, Airports, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged Airport Closed, Bird Strike, Boeing 737, Ciampino, Emergency Landing, European Starlings, FR4102, Frankfurt, Germany, Rome, Ryanair, Substantial Damage on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Ryanair flight FR4102 (Boeing 737) originating from Frankfurt, Germany with 166 passengers on board (and 6 crew) suffered from multiple bird strikes (both engines ingested multiple European starlings) causing an emergency landing at Rome’s Ciampino Airport. The airport was closed till late Monday afternoon since the aircraft removal was hampered due to “substantial damage” [...]
Good News Everyone: TSA puts family screening lanes at all US Airports
Posted in Airports, Passengers, Security, tagged Aerosol, Airport Security, Checkpoint, Family lane, Good News Everyone, Liquids, Security, TSA on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By November 20th, all the US Airports will have designated TSA passenger security-check lanes called “family lanes” to move through security checks and inspections at “their own pace”. The “popular” lanes had been tested earlier at 48 airports “provide a space for families and passengers who don’t travel very often to move through security at [...]












