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The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into La Guardia airport in New York City on Friday amid a shortage of air traffic control staff, according to multiple reports. The partial government shutdown has impacted air traffic controllers, who are deemed essential workers and have to work without pay. Newark and Philadelphia reportedly are also stopping all incoming flights, according to Bloomberg.

A pilot who refused to fly his scheduled United Airlines flight to Israel was arrested—with 300 passengers stuck on the plane for hours while airline officials scrambled to find another pilot. The United Airlines flight from Newark to Tel Aviv was set to leave early in the week. Usually a non-stop flight, passengers expected to get to their destinations after about 12 hours, but instead were in transit for about 30. Airline personnel refused to let them disembark for hours, passengers said, “making us feel like hostages, without food or water,” according to one witness. …

A man dressed in women's clothing who was trying to escape a 'bad date' was able to walk across two runways at Newark Liberty International Airport and wander into a terminal undetected - despite a $300million perimeter security system. Siyah Bryant, 24, of Jersey City, New Jersey, slipped undetected into a secure area of the airport on Christmas Day and was not arrested until he approached a United Airlines worker, who called police.

Illegal immigrant worked as airport security supervisor for TWENTY years under the ID of a man murdered in 1992 Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole was living as Jerry Thomas for about 20 years The real Jerry Thomas was reportedly murdered in Queens, New York, in 1992 Oyewole oversaw 30 security officers at Newark Liberty International Airport in his position as a supervisor Authorities say a longtime security supervisor at a New Jersey airport has been arrested on a charge he was using the identity of a New York City man who was murdered 20 years ago. Illegal immigrant Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, 54,...

The dead dog didn’t help, nor did a string of other security lapses large and small. But in the end, a blistering critique from her own team of managers may have been too much for the federal security director at Newark Liberty International Airport to withstand. Barbara Bonn Powell, who has held the Transportation Security Administration’s top post at Newark Liberty since January 2008, sent a staff-wide e-mail to the TSA’s 1,400 employees at the airport Tuesday, announcing she was stepping down to take a job at the agency’s headquarters in Arlington, Va. Though the TSA declined to link her...

Newark Liberty Airport Reportedly in Lockdown Over Security Breach

Two people caught trespassing at Newark Liberty International Airport last week had entered the secure zone alongside the airfield by lifting a chain-link fence and wiggling under it, authorities acknowledged yesterday. When the two, described as a homeless man and woman wanted for parole violations in Georgia, were discovered on Thursday morning, they told police they had been there since Tuesday night, sheltering under a roadway overpass within a few hundred feet of parked aircraft near Terminal C. Initially, officials reported that the pair had tried to walk through a construction zone off-limits to the public. Yesterday, after being contacted...

A Port Authority police officer arrested a federal airport screener following a shouting match at Newark Liberty International Airport. It happened at a Terminal C checkpoint after Port Authority Police Officer Steve Castro escorted an off-duty New York City police officer to the gate to see off a family member. Allen Abbott is charged with disorderly conduct. The Port Authority says Abbott became verbally abusive. But the acting federal security director at the airport says Abbott was assisting another screener who believed security had been circumvented.

Airport Security Alert Issued Bulletin Covers JFK, Newark, Dulles, Detroit, O'Hare And Los Angeles LAX Airports Jun 29, 2004 7:45 pm US/Eastern WASHINGTON (CBS) CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr reports the Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert that warns customs officers at six of America's busiest airports to watch for travelers of Pakistani descent who show physical signs of preparing for terror attacks against the U.S. The bulletin says, "Officers should look for rope burns, unusual bruises, wounds/scars or other evidence that they engaged in paramilitary training..." The unusually specific internal warning, obtained by CBS News, covers customs...

<p>Dozens more migrants seized at Newark airport Monday, April 12, 2004 Associated Press More than 40 illegal immigrants on two flights were detained this weekend when their planes landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, authorities said.</p> <p>Four other illegal aliens awaiting the planes' arrivals were arrested and charged with smuggling the immigrants, said Janet Rapaport, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.</p>