Posted on 02/13/2005 7:42:49 PM PST by You Dirty Rats
Unauthorized passenger got past security -- no details yet
Bottom of the screen...situation under control. Terminal reopened.
Right, the Cincinnati airport is in northern Kentucky, just like the Dayton OH airport is in Vandalia Ohio....
A friend of mine worked at one of the airport bars, many of the bussers and cooks happened to be Russian, Ukranians, Serbs. One of them walked past security with a backpack on. He was ordered to stop, but he did not understand the command, and quite innocently continued on and disappeared. He singlehandedly shut down the airport for over three hours.
I thought the airport was out near Florence? (I lived in Ft.Thomas briefly and only went to the airport once)
Sounds like they found the nailclippers.
Channel 9 had less info than you. They just said the problem was solved but didn't say what actually happened.
Florence is due south of Runway 18 Left.
Usually this is just some idiot like that guy a few years ago who ran down the up escalator and closed down the airport for several hours. He was in a hurry to catch his plane.
You have to wonder about the security bureaucracy. I stopped in at the Museum of the American Indian yesterday at the old battery Custom House. It was swarming with security guards, and the newly installed metal detector was so sensitive that everyone had to take off their belts and go through several times.
Why would a terrorist possibly want to blow up this museum, which has relatively few visitors, when there are thousands of better targets in the city?
I'm sorry. I was just rambling on about how easily the airport can be brought to a halt. The incident I wa refering to happened last year.
Been to that airport many times. It's not very large but has a spacious interior and is a hub for Delta.
CVG stands for "Covington," that being the nearest city of any size when the airport opened in 1947.
http://www.cvgairport.com/airport/fun/facts.shtml
CVG is for Covington, Kentucky, where the airport is.
Actually the airport is in Boone Co. aka Erlanger, Ky. I am from there and know it very well. They didn't want to call it the Cincinnati airport because they didn't want people to think it ia in Cincinnati.
Are there a lot of Northern Ky. Freepers on here?
Not sure, but I used to live in Ft. Thomas. I really liked Northern Kentucky and wouldn't rule out moving there again someday.
There are a few. I'm in Independence.
The airport is only a few miles from William Howard Taft's home...the only sane candidate in the 1912 election (so naturally he came in third).
I've been through Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky a couple of times in the last few years, most recently last summer. It is a decent-sized facility. Even has a monorail connecting the terminals. Very nice employees there.
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