Air travel getting out of control - Breach causes re-screenings of thousands

[Militarypol21]

Breaking News?

Breaking News? Someone broke through a security checkpoint in New Jersey and all flights are grounded? Anyone hear about this?

 

[hawkhavn]

New Jersey, not New York:
Man skirts security at NJ airport; flights stopped - Yahoo! News

 

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03, 2010
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Authorities are searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport. Flights have been grounded, and passengers are being re-screened.

Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Sari Koshetz says a man was seen walking down an exit lane at Terminal C about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

Once aware of the situation, TSA officials with assistance from the New York Port Authorityreviewed security videotape to identify the errant individual.

As of 8:40 p.m. Sunday, security was unable to locate that individual in the terminal.

The security line was emptied, and passengers were waiting in check-in areas at about 9 p.m.

All passengers in the secure part of the terminal were ordered to evacuate the terminal and go through the screening area once again, Fox News learned.

There is nothing beyond the report that he went the wrong way to suggest there is anything wrong or serious about this situation, a TSA official told Fox News.

The official said this type of situation has happened before where a person quite innocently and for whatever reason walks through the security area improperly.

Continental spokeswoman Susannah Thurston says it's an airport security issue not involving the Houston-based airline.

 

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Newark Liberty Airport in Lockdown Over Security Breach - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

 

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TSA: Newark terminal locked down

(CNN) -- A terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport was closed Sunday night after a man walked through the wrong side of a checkpoint exit, the Transportation Security Administration said.


Crap - coming back from the holidays and this happens?...

 

[T-rav]

How do these things happen? Has security had a little too many doughnuts and couldnt run him down?? I was just at Indy Intl and they had cops on segways!!

 

[Militarypol21]

Good start to Twenty Ten! I have a feeling something big is going to happen within the next month or so... First a failed attempt and now someone attempts to break through a checkpoint. What's next?

 

[Militarypol21]

On a side note... I heard there were snipers ontop buildings in New York during the New Years ball drop? It's good to see the police department is trying but if a suicide bomber was to walk into the middle of that crowd and press his button, there won't be anything left for the snipers to take out. There are thousands if not millions of ways to take out a mass amount of people other than using the airlines. There's only "so many" precautions the government and local agencies can take but there is no way in stopping every possibility for an attack. Everything and everybody is suspicious in my book!

 

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CNN STORY

The security breach happened about 5:20 p.m. at Terminal C when a man walked through an exit on the public side to the secure "sterile" side for passengers who had cleared screening, according to the TSA

They didn't even know where he went.