Airline Security

On That JetBlue Captain Mayhem

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Aviation, Singapore Engines, Singapore, Jetblue Pilot, Travel News, Jetblue-Pilot-Panic-Attack, Singapore Flight Turnaround, Airline Security, Airlines, Jetblue, JetBlue Flight 191, Jetblue Flight, Travel News

This story strikes me as terribly tragic and eerily reminiscent of what happened to a friend of mine, an experienced airline pilot.

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Did The TSA Just Make Air Travel A Little Bit More Dangerous?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Exemption, Pat-Down, Senior Citizens, Security, Tsa, Senior Citizens Tsa, Airport Security, Airline Security, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Maybe instead of a foolish process of elimination, which still leaves a small but not insignificant risk, the government should reverse its approach. Instead of thinking of air travelers as guilty of terrorism until proven innocent, why not think of us as innocent until proven guilty?

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TSA Tries To Soothe Holiday Travelers

Christopher Elliott | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Airport Security, Tsa, Holiday Travel, Guns, Travel Blogs, John Pistole, Airline Security, Travel News

TSA Administrator John Pistole was busy making the rounds during Thanksgiving week, trying to assure holiday air travelers that their screening experience would be better than last year. Which it was, thankfully.

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Come Fly With Me? Not Like It Used to Be

Monica Medina | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Ol' Blue Eyes, Flying, Airline-Service, United Airlines, Airline Security, Frank Sinatra, Coast to Coast, Nostalgia, Huff/Post50 News

Nowadays, flying is no longer a getaway adventure. It's more of a sentence or a banishment to the not so friendly skies.

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Talk To Me: TSA Wants To Know Where You Have Been, Where You Are Going

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.04.2011

BOSTON -- Katherine Dombrowski wasn't expecting a quiz as she waited in the TSA security line at Boston's Logan International Airport. But that's what...

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Alleged Stowaway In Court For Unauthorized Flight From NY To LA

AP | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Airline Security, Airport Security, Tsa, Stowaway, Expired Boarding Pass, Airplane Stowaway, Virgin America, Olajide Oluwaseun, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- A man accused of breaching airport security when he used an expired boarding pass to get a free ride on a Los Angeles-bound flight from...

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Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right

Dan Collins | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Airport Security, Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 95-Year-Old Grandmother Pat Down, Airline Security, Tsa Airport Security, New York News

I can't help noticing that a lot of the furor over airport pat-down policies has come from the crazy right. The same people will be the first to loudly denounce the Obama administration for any breach in airport security.

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Southwest Airlines Apologizes To Muslim Passenger

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Muslim Americans, Airplane Security, Southwest Airlines, Muslim Woman, Muslim Passenger, Southwest Airlines Apology, Airline Security, Religion News

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service Southwest Airlines has apologized to a Muslim woman who claims she was removed from a flight from San Diego on...

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Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsibilities

Rabbi Aaron Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judaism, Jewish Law, Torah, Shema, Praying on Planes, Tefillin, Public Prayer, Tsa, Alaska Airlines, Airline Security, Religion News

Our freedom to pray in the public square comes with parallel obligations: we must communicate with others so they can understand and we must understand how our obligations should change so we can co-exist with others.

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Understanding: The Most Forgotten Weapon In The War on Terror

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Islam, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Judaism, Terrorism, Muslims, Prayer, Security, Muslim, Orthodox Judaism, Airport Security, Tsa, Airline Security, Religion News

The case of Alaskan Airlines 241 reminds us that while tefillin are not a security threat, ignorance is. It's troubling when airline personnel have no idea how to distinguish between a genuine threat and an unusual practice.

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The Tefillin Bomber Strikes Again

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tefillin, Rabbi Jason Miller, Jewish, Judaism, Teffilin Bomb, New Zealand Tefillin Scare, US Airways Tefillin, Airline Security, US Airways Phylacteries, Religion News

I wonder what the next mode of transportation will be that reports a security threat when a Jewish person starts to pray. Truthfully, this can be avoided with some education

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Pat-down Protesters Tangled With the TSA Online

G.W. Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeland Security, Terrorism, G.W. Schulz, Airports, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pat-Downs, Technology, Privacy, Airline Security, Body Scanners, TSA Security, Politics News

The TSA's website hosts a fellow nicknamed "Blogger Bob" who's responsible for debunking perceived myths about airport security. Sometimes Bob is right. Other times the TSA doesn't help itself by appearing to muddy the truth further.

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Cast of Glee to Administer TSA Pat-Downs

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air Travel, Glee, Tsa, Homeland Security, Airline Security, Airplanes, TV Shows, Pat-Downs, Full-Body Scanners, Tv, Airport-Pat-Down, Comedy News

In the wake of complaints about tighter airport security measures, the TSA has announced that the cast of TV's hit show Glee will be randomly administering pat-downs to airline travelers who opt out of using full-body scanners.

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Sikhs Call Airport Screening For Turbans 'Security Theater'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sikh Coalition, Sikh Turbans, Sikh Security Threat, Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, US Airport Security, Airport Secuirty, Sikhs and Security, Airline Security, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Leaders of three Sikh organizations say they've been told by federal transportation officia...

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Man Flies From JFK With Two Guns, Several Swords, Daggers And Knives In His Luggage

AP | SALAH NASRAWI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Guns, Egypt Security, Airline Security, Airport Knives, Airport Security, Jfk, JFK Airport, Swords, New York News

CAIRO — Police detained an American-Egyptian man who arrived in Cairo on a flight from New York with firearms in his luggage, airport officials ...

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Inhofe: 'I Believe In Racial And Ethnic Profiling"

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not many senators are willing to own up to this, but here's Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in today's Fort Hood hearing in the Armed Services Committee. ...

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Inhofe: 'I Believe In Racial And Ethnic Profiling"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Inhofe, Inhofe, Sen. Inhofe, James Inhofe, Inhofe Ethnic Profiling, Counterterrorism, Ethnic Profiling, Terrorism, Inhofe Profiling, Airline Security, Racism, Inhofe Racial Profiling, Inhofe Racism, Video, Politics News

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) knows he's not politically correct, but he doesn't care: "I believe in racial and ethnic profiling," the GOP senator annou...

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Full-Body Scanners To Be Installed In British Airports

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown says full-body scanners will be introduced in Britain's airports in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bo...

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The Butt Bomb: New Security May Force Al Qaeda To Extreme Lengths

The New Republic | Michael Crowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Scanning, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Airports, Airline Security, Butt Bomb, Security Measures, Airport Security, Al Qaeda, World News

Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won't protect us completely--not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an und...

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New Airline Safety Measures To Be Announced By Obama

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Obama Airline Safety, New Airline Safety Rules, President Obama, New Flight Safety Rules, Airline Security, Travel, Airlines, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama scolded 20 of his highest-level officials on Tuesday over the botched Christmas Day terror attack on an airl...

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