What's the TSA doing on an airplane?

vegasj: cptjeff: vegasj: If only the US could install TSA workers across the globe...

We do.

well fark me.

I was trying to be sarcastic one way... but I guess make it the other way.

Yup. Coming back to the US these days, you first go through local security. But since the EU's standards are too low or something, you then go in a US line, where your bags are inspected by a TSA agent, and you go through another metal detector, body scanner, or whatever. Depends on the setup in the individual airport. In Ireland, it was a full checkpoint with Customs that you could pre clear. In Spain, it was a couple guys in the terminal with a magnetic wand.

Then you get back to the US, where you, if you didn't do a pre clear thing, go through customs. Then you, without having ever left a secured area, mysteriously have to go through security again before getting on your domestic connection.

I thought only the third boxcar, midnight train went there.

air_wx: It was a woman who announced that she had a surgically implanted device. She was arrested.

Just one or a pair?

Probably a diabetic device again.

TSA don't know 'bout diabetes

"Suspicious" behavior? Was he acting polite, not blabbing on his phone prior to takeoff, not getting shiate faced drunk and going to the bathroom every 10 minutes or banging the seat all the time?

gweilo8888: Every time I read the words "abundance of caution", I mentally insert the words "total overreaction".

It's the same thing, really.

That stood out to me as an odd phrase, too.

Maybe, though, the passenger was trying to ignite a shoe bomb or something equally sinister. Let's give the crew the benefit of the doubt lest we, ourselves, overreact.

m1ke: What surprising to me is that there is a direct flight from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina....

I'm flying Air France from Detroit to Paris in July. I was surprised to find that the French were willing to have such a direct connection to that city.

Apparently the passenger was a kid who doesn't kick seats, whine about length of flight or run up and down the aisle of the plane.

Lost Thought 00: Someone got caught Flying While Muslim again. Shut everything down!

Calm down, Sparky, this isn't Madagascar.

"A US Airways spokesperson said there 179 passengers and nine crew aboard the flight"

Did they accidentally the whole thing, too?

A U.S. official says the initial reports said a female passenger appeared to be mentally unstable.

Link

Just your normal crazy person.

rick21n: [i.imgur.com image 640x324]

Is that red thing supposed to be a plane that crashed into the ground and then bounced?

"Pierre! You did not buy tickets to Charlotte Islands, BC, but to Charlotte NC!"

"Zut alors! And we are half way there! Ah, such a mistake!"

"Oh what will we do? It's a town that's one half fundy nutcases and the other half meth-head bikers. And I bet they don't even have mineral water at the spa!"

"Wait, here comes the stewardess. Oh, miss - hammma hammina jihad."

(insert stock shot of airliner making emergency landing)

Well, I've never been to Maine,
But I've been to Oklahoma...

GoodOmens: A U.S. official says the initial reports said a female passenger appeared to be mentally unstable.

Link

Just your normal crazy person female.


ftfy

/tip your waiter

US Air paints the US flag backwards on the starboard side of the rudder. Aways bugs me when I see one..

/need a hobby

ciberido: Lost Thought 00: Someone got caught Flying While Muslim again. Shut everything down!

Calm down, Sparky, this isn't Madagascar.

True. It's more dime store USSR with a soupçon of post Weimar Germany

Kaka: US Air paints the US flag backwards on the starboard side of the rudder. Aways bugs me when I see one..

/need a hobby

It's the direction the flag would fly. Ships & race cars do the same thing

Hobodeluxe: GoodOmens: A U.S. official says the initial reports said a female passenger appeared to be mentally unstable.

Link

Just your normal crazy person female.


ftfy

/tip your waiter

True. Must have been this lady.

Let it be zombies... Let it be zombies...

cman: Kaka: US Air paints the US flag backwards on the starboard side of the rudder. Aways bugs me when I see one..

/need a hobby

Its a holdover from military tradition.

When you have a flag on backwards, you are signifying the how the flag would look if you were holding one running forward.

I totally get that - on the port side they do it correctly - on the starboard they display it stars aft - it is supposed to be drawn as if the wind is blowing it. Delta does this correctly.

Purdue_Pete: Kaka: US Air paints the US flag backwards on the starboard side of the rudder. Aways bugs me when I see one..

/need a hobby

OHHHHHHHHH, sorry, I see what you are saying now. They have it facing the "wrong" direction for being om that side. Sorry.

[www.johnnyjet.com image 294x300]

Drives me batty :)

praxis44241: Why do you need a direct flight from Paris to Charlotte?
Are the Frenchies invading us through Charlotte?

Charlotte is pretty much the biggest USAir hub on the east coast.

highendmighty: That stood out to me as an odd phrase, too.

Maybe, though, the passenger was trying to ignite a shoe bomb or something equally sinister. Let's give the crew the benefit of the doubt lest we, ourselves, overreact.

It's a phrase we see with staggering (pops) regularity (pops), yet we rarely see real terrorist attacks thwarted *or* happening, which is why I find it much more believable that it's just another overreaction, rather than an extremely rare instance of something nefarious happening.

2wolves: Rincewind53: Newflash? Really? This shiat happens at least once or twice a month.

U.S. Airways having good service? I don't believe it.

Considering I'm currently waiting to board a Delta flight after US Airways cancelled my 1/2-full flight 3 hours before departure and didn't have any other flights to get me to my destination that (A) didn't have a 6-hour stop in Charlotte and/or (B) got me there the same day (and it's an engineering development review with people from multiple locations so we need to all be there)... I'm with you fellers.

Kaka: I totally get that - on the port side they do it correctly - on the starboard they display it stars aft - it is supposed to be drawn as if the wind is blowing it. Delta does this correctly.


It's been done before

Pretty routine for Bangor. First available stop in the US. Usually it involves too much free booze and something like (with appropriate slurs) "give me another drink or I'll set off a bomb".

Drop him off in Bangor where they have all the facilities to deal with such passengers and continue on their way.

Next day hung-over passenger shows up in court, pleads guilty of a minor offense and pays off a fine before being allowed to make his way onward (with another airline of course). The bill for the airline having to make an unscheduled stop will arrive later.

Kaka: US Air paints the US flag backwards on the starboard side of the rudder. Aways bugs me when I see one..

/need a hobby

It's also only got 9 stripes and no stars, at least according to the picture Purdue_Pete posted. That bug you too? It's their logo, which happens to kind of resemble the flag. It's not The Flag™. So it doesn't follow the same rules.

/Retract this if someone posts a pic with a US Air tail that has The Flag™ on it going in the wrong direction. I don't feel like looking it up.

Lost Thought 00: Someone got caught Flying While Muslim again. Shut everything down!

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Damn muslims acting suspicious by minding their own business and doing nothing wrong whatsoever. Lock them up!!!!

TFA: King's office said the woman is a French citizen...

No, see. She was acting suspicious, and there's no need to believe this was a racial or religious thing.

...born in Cameroon

f*ck.

R.A.Danny: Wouldn't that slow the plane down?

lol

jbezorg: [lh6.googleusercontent.com image 350x245]

Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

No, it is spelled "Halifax" and it is in Nova Scotia, that is North of Bangor.

Because Fartbongo!!!!1!!1!!!

QU!RK1019: Lost Thought 00: Someone got caught Flying While Muslim again. Shut everything down!

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Damn muslims acting suspicious by minding their own business and doing nothing wrong whatsoever. Lock them up!!!!

TFA: King's office said the woman is a French citizen...

No, see. She was acting suspicious, and there's no need to believe this was a racial or religious thing.

...born in Cameroon

f*ck.

Beef jerky time!