- An Iraqi man wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at LAX yesterday. USA Today reported that he was carrying a “suspicious item.” We suppose the truth was too shocking…His bags, however, made it onboard and the US Airways plane bound for Philadelphia was diverted to Las Vegas where it was searched and cleared about three and a half hours later.
- Today in the Sky reported that an airline employee at Orlando International Airport used his security privileges to sneak a duffel bag contained 13 handguns, an assault rifle, and 8 pounds of marijuana onto a Delta flight to San Juan. Orlando has had multiple incidents of smuggling by airport personnel and even TSA personnel. The man in question, an off-duty customer service agent, had been employed by Delta subsidiary Comair for three years.
- The Associated Press reports an off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that he ejaculated on her.
- A drunken man found himself in jail for three nights after his drunken behavior forced the diversion of his Phoenix-bound British Airways jet to Winnipeg. Kind Irish Canadians took responsibility and care for him, and Air Canada will be taking him home. The man had previously suffered injuries when a plane bounced off a runway in England and had become an anxious flier. He went on a 24-hour drinking binge before leaving London, then consumed wine and two Valiums on the flight, and then, when he was refused service, began yelling, swearing, slapped a fellow passenger and threatened to kill the man’s wife. He was handcuffed to his seat and will have to pay British Airways more than $15,000…the cost of the unscheduled stop.
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