L.A. Airport Shut Down on Security Concern

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L.A. Airport Shut Down on Security Concern
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles International Airport was shut down early Saturday because of a possible security breach and a separate incident at an international terminal security screening station, an airport spokesman said.
 
No information was immediately available on the incident at Tom Bradley International Terminal, airport spokesman Harold Johnson said.
Officials also did not explain the possible security breach that shut down terminals 6, 7 and 8. The terminals are connected.
Paul Turk, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites), said flights were not being allowed to depart, but an Associated Press reporter nearby saw two flights take off from the airport. Inbound flights were being allowed to land but passengers were not being taken off the plane, Turk said.
Traffic was being diverted from the airport.
 
Heard that some corroded batteries in a flashlight in a bag exploded.

No more flashlights on airliners.........
 
A nation of bedwetters.

Jefferson rolls over in his grave yet again...

I can't wait to hear the candidates promise to get to the bottom of this and protect us from exploding NiMH flashlight batteries.
 
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flights were not being allowed to depart, but an Associated Press reporter nearby saw two flights take off from the airport.

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All right! Let's hear it for uneducated, fear mongering reporting. Let's see those two flights could've been (a) already taxiing out when the breach happened or (b) maybe (if they're smart) they just held the flights in the affected terminals, leaving all other flights to depart normally.
 
Such a pain .... I was in the midst of the last security concern at LAX two weeks ago when a Swiss Army knife made it through the x-ray machine in someone's carry-on bag but the amazing team of TSA agents at LAX couldn't stop the guy before he retrieved his bag and went to his gate somehow never to be seen again. Result: The entire terminal had to be evacuated and all arriving aircraft got to wait in the remote area during the process. My flight from Miami landed shortly after the incident and three hours after touching down, we were allowed to pull into our gate. Real, real, fun stuff.

Certainly by no means am I trying to minimize the necessity for strong security both at the airport and in the air and I remember all too well what happened three years ago this September but in a struggling commercial air industry, there needs to be improvements made to an imperfect system.

So a couple of corroded batteries in a flashlight set off a false positive in the bomb detection equipment .... as a result, thousands of passengers not just in Los Angeles but nationwide (think about all the late arrivals) are going to be negatively effected. There's gotta be a better way!
 
Layers, my friend. Security in layers instead of one huge checkpoint. Screen for different things at each layer instead of EVERYTHING at one spot. Lines would be shorter, and TSA (or whoever is doing it by then) can be more attentive.
 
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flights were not being allowed to depart, but an Associated Press reporter nearby saw two flights take off from the airport.

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All right! Let's hear it for uneducated, fear mongering reporting. Let's see those two flights could've been (a) already taxiing out when the breach happened or (b) maybe (if they're smart) they just held the flights in the affected terminals, leaving all other flights to depart normally.

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Or, a more sinister reason......... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Or, a more sinister reason......... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Quick, somebody call Micheal Moore and see who was really on those 2 planes.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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