Posted on 08/10/2007 6:52:13 AM PDT by lwd
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- All outbound flights were grounded at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport this morning because of a security breach, the Transportation Security Administration confirms.
At 7:55 a.m. a Hispanic male circumvented the security screening process and proceeded to concourse C, the TSA reports. The concourse was immediately closed as airport officials searched for the man. He was not located inside the concourse and they believe he may have boarded a plane in the C concourse. Six planes were grounded in the C concourse while all other outbound flights were allowed to continue.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, TSA and airport security are searching those six planes for the man. Once a plane has been searched and cleared it can take off, the TSA said. They are using a photo of the man taken from surveillance video to search the planes.
Around 8:30 a.m. the C concourse security checkpoint reopened to passengers.
WCNC.com is following this story. We will have more information as soon as it becomes available.
prayers up......
A bit brazen for an illegal Mexican, but they’ve gotten a bit pushy lately. Or could he be a ME passing as a Mexican?
If only the "Restricted Area" signs had been printed in Spanish, Arabic and Urdu, this poor man wouldn't be being hassled like this....
Ten other planes left before officials were able to search the flights, according to Jon Allen, a TSA spokesman. He said those flights will be reverse-screened when they land. Allen said it is too early to tell if there was any malicious intent.
Shoot first ask questions later.
Almost positive he’s ME posing as Mexican.
I'm NOT advocating this as a good idea! But maybe it is what it would take to get us to re-evaluate the silly security theater that's presented at American airports every day.
Well, all planes did land on 9/11 one way or another.
Of course if this was a dry run and he was wearing a disguise they'll never find him.
My family was supposed to land at Charlotte at 8am for a connection to orlando, no wonder i havent heard from them. jeez, my mom was a nervous wreck about flying and i kept telling her nothing was going to happen.
Doesn’t have to be a ME man to be a terrorist...Jose Padilla, or Robert Reid come to mind.
Why, except to harass the passengers for having flown out of Charlotte? Just bus them all to baggage claim, and screen the ones who want to take a connecting flight.
VERY FEW exceptions my friend...very few.
In some cities, if this was an illegal immigrant the local police would not be allowed to assist in detaining the man. Is TSA equally as politically-correct?
It seems to me that there have been several of these incidents lately, where somebody simply sprints past security or through a door or access used by employees and then disappears into the secure area. I doubt that they manage to make it onto a plane, and I’m not even sure that this is their objective. Which, of course, raises the question of exactly what their objective might be...
Seems pretty smart, to me.
If this was a dry run, then we want to know as much as possible about it.
Maybe part of the dry run (if it was) was to sneak on dis-assembled weapons, or more shoe bombs...who knows?
Do an extra screening and see if anything got through so TSA goons can be on the lookout for it around the globe.
Worst case, if this is a probe, maybe it causes a little confusion for the planners and they have to back off and wait a little bit for their "big pie" or whatever it is they call it.
Sounds like another dry run.
The concourse was immediately closed as airport officials searched for the man.
Followed by this...
Ten other planes left before officials were able to search the flights, according to Jon Allen, a TSA spokesman.
Guess they didn't immediately stop the outbound flights when they immediately closed the concourse, huh? Airport security needs to be privatized.
“””so TSA goons can be on the lookout for it around the globe”””
what do you mean??? Our security is in their hands -if they were incompetent goons we should have had a great more incidents like 9/11 but we haven’t.
I expect there are thousands of suspicious persons detained that we never hear about. One or two are bound to become public.
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