Passenger Allowed To Board Plane After Grenades Found

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

Really people... it is going to be impossible to leave US very soon, as long as more and more rediculous news like this continue to pop up - now TSA is ready to screen private jets too


TSA screeners found grenades in a passenger's luggage at JFK airport, but didn't alert police

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Passenger Allowed to Board Plane After Grenades Found in Luggage
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Fox News
October 09, 2008

http://www. foxnews. com/story/0,2933,434683,00. html

It might seem uncommon for a passenger to be allowed on a plane after grenades are found in his luggage, but the Transportation Security Administration is standing by the procedure after reportedly doing just that on Tuesday

Federal airport screeners found two grenades in the luggage of a man set to board a JetBlue flight at New York's Kennedy airport, according to MyFOXNY. com

TSA specialists then determined that the explosives were inert and allowed the passenger to board the plane without ever informing police, the TV station's Web site reported

The TSA maintained that it’s up to their own personnel to determine when to call police, and said the agency was reprimanded for notifying authorities in a similar incident last month, MyFOXNY. com reported

The port authority police union told the station that this was a “blatant disregard for public safety

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