Friday, January 29, 2010

"A TSA Spokesperson just told us that if you have an incident like this on board a flight you should immeidately report it to a TSA customer service person at the airport when you arrive."

Don't ya think that might be a little late? And WHY THE FUCK is the pilot asking the passenger whether they should take off or not?

UPATED

h/t Jawa (hop over there to watch the video -- my embed won't work)

Airline Passenger Says Concerns Ignored
Passenger: Pilot Asked Her Whether To Turn Back
A South Jersey woman got the scare of her life when she tried to report suspicious activity on board a plane Philadelphia International Airport.

The woman shared details of her terrifying ordeal only with Fox 29 News on Wednesday.

Now, she's wondering if it was some kind of sick joke or a test run for a terrorist.

Fox 29's Dave Schratwieser reported that 12 days after her red-eye flight from Los Angeles, the US Airways passenger is still upset over an incident on her flight, the reaction to it by the flight crew, and the lack of reaction from authorities.

"I was trembling, and I was just completely frightened," said the mother of three.

She won 't soon forget her latest US Airways flight from L.A. to Philadelphia after she encountered a passenger on board who scared the daylights out of her.

"He starts talking to himself. Then he goes, 'Detroit, huh-huh-huh,' like that, and it was really, really frightening," she said.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said the passenger was Muslim and repeatedly made a reference to the latest terrorism incident in Detroit on Christmas Day with the so called "underwear bomber."

The passenger immediately told a flight attendant, who then told the pilot before the plane even left the gate.

What the flight attendant said next shocked the passenger: "'The pilot has asked me to ask you if you think we should leave the gate.' And I looked at her, and I said, 'What?'"

The woman told Fox 29 News no one from the flight crew spoke to the man or investigated further. Then, the pilot made a call to the flight attendant.

The passenger said the flight attendant, "Looks at me and says, 'We need an answer.' … She's like, 'We're gonna go, but I'll keep an eye on him.'"

The flight took off. The woman sat terrified for five hours all of the way to Philadelphia.

Then, just before the plane landed, the pilot ordered everyone to remain seated. The passenger said that's when the man got up, walked to the rear of the plane and put his backpack in an overhead bin, then went to the bathroom.

"I'm like, 'This is it, this is how I'm gonna die,'" she said.

No one questioned the woman or the suspicious passenger in Philadelphia.

When she tried to report it to the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security, US Airways, even the FBI, she got nowhere.

"He listened to my entire story, never took my name, the flight information, nothing, and told me that, if there was an issue, US Air would have contacted them," the woman said.

The woman said US Airways told her if the man got through security, there's nothing to worry about.

A TSA spokesperson told Fox 29 that if you have an incident like this onboard a flight you should immediately report it to a TSA customer service person at the airport when you arrive.

Fox 29 is waiting for a response from US Airways.

UPDATE -
USAir told the woman via Fox:

“If the man got through security, there’s nothing to worry about.”

Security? You mean this security?

TSA worker moved to desk duty after being caught sleeping on the job at LaGuardia

Or this security?

Philly TSA worker gone after 'white powder' prank on passenger

Or the same boneheads who
leaked TSA Security Manual to internet?

Or the chief bonehead, Napolitano, who meets ethnic leaders to formulate security policy in a more sensitive manner?

Is it any wonder:

International air travel dropped most ever in 2009?

Even the flight crew has had enough of the, what's now become routine, flight 'disruptions':

Flight Attendants Call For Stronger Security Provisions

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

And if the suspect did successfully detonate an explosive, no-one would have known this woman's earlier concerns.

USAir told the woman via Fox:

“If the man got through security, there’s nothing to worry about.”

Security? You mean this security?

TSA worker moved to desk duty after being caught sleeping on the job at LaGuardia

Or this security?

Philly TSA worker gone after 'white powder' prank on passenger


Or the same boneheads who
leaked TSA Security Manual to internet?

Or the chief bonehead, Napolitano, who meets ethnic leaders to formulate security policy in a more sensitive manner?

Is it any wonder:

International air travel dropped most ever in 2009?

Even the flight crew has had enough of the, what's now become routine, flight 'disruptions':


Flight Attendants Call For Stronger Security Provisions

Anonymous said...

related:

The Islam Tax - Bill Warner

"Look at your next airline ticket and you will find a "Security Fee". What is the Security Fee that was passed after September 11, 2001? It is an Islam tax. It is more money out of an American's pocket to pay for the privilege of living with Muslims amongst us..."

Pastorius said...

You know what? I'm starting to wish their was a terrorist attack that took out the entire FBI, NSA, and TSA.

Then we could fucking start over from scratch.

The fuckheads involved in this incident ought to be fired and publicly humiliated. Perhaps, tar and feathers.

This story really pisses me off.

Brooke said...

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Anonymous said...

Pastorius, "FBI, NSA, and TSA" . . . you forgot the UN. Sigh.

Yes, those involved should be fired, but if you read the link to "Philly TSA worker 'gone'", notice:

Quote: "TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis declined to identify the worker and his job title, citing privacy laws. She also wouldn't say whether he was fired or quit. "

He can document his security training for TSA on any number of security related job applications and no-one will know this history.

christian soldier said...

Thanks for the h/t below-my friend...

as to this post and all of the other 'false alarms' I say - they are testing-testing-testing and our government officials are failing the test!!!
and are going to get us killed....
C-CS

Anonymous said...

Testing, testing, testing? Perhaps. But what are they testing? Possibilities are endless. Probing numbers, identities, methods of sky marshalls? Or are these efforts creating distractions, tying up security resources while actual terrorist activity takes place elsewhere. Or are these efforts part and parcel litigation jihad, as in every case, accusations of ethnic/religious profiling are made. And with current Muslim Brotherhood approval & design of security measures, why wouldn't they instigate security responses which result in litigation jihad if not to drain kuffar coffers while clogging the courts and intelligence pipelines and not least of all, hit the airlines financial interests as Airlines report fewer people are flying?

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Regarding Ann Davis' statement about privacy laws . . .
Air Tran refused to release the identities of the suspects involved in the November incident on AirTran Flight 297 for the same reason . . .
". . .Because of privacy laws, the airline would not identify any of the men involved in the November incident. . . "

Privacy of individuals terrorizing passengers for jihad or entertainment trumps privacy of law abiding citizens.