Syracuse Airport Evacuation
12-04-2009 | 06:03 PM
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In the pre- 9/11 days, when you were allowed to escort your family and friends to the gate to wish them farewell:
2 stories:
My grandmother sent her purse through the X-ray machine and the guy showed us the monitor, pointed, and asked "what's this? can I look in your bag?"
What we saw looked exactly like the silhouette of cartoon ACME bomb.
Turns out it was a makeup compact and a piece of yarn.
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During college, I was in an electronics/programming class and had to build a digital clock. This involved a breadboard (look it up), a bunch of 7-segment displays, a CPU, and a lot of wire. My friends project was stuffed into a fishing tackle box and he was taking it on a trip home with him as carry-on. If anything looked like a time-detonated device, this was it.
He told the security guy, "you're gonna want to hand check this". Security's response: "OK, have a nice trip."
The good old days.
2 stories:
My grandmother sent her purse through the X-ray machine and the guy showed us the monitor, pointed, and asked "what's this? can I look in your bag?"
What we saw looked exactly like the silhouette of cartoon ACME bomb.
Turns out it was a makeup compact and a piece of yarn.
----
During college, I was in an electronics/programming class and had to build a digital clock. This involved a breadboard (look it up), a bunch of 7-segment displays, a CPU, and a lot of wire. My friends project was stuffed into a fishing tackle box and he was taking it on a trip home with him as carry-on. If anything looked like a time-detonated device, this was it.
He told the security guy, "you're gonna want to hand check this". Security's response: "OK, have a nice trip."
The good old days.
12-04-2009 | 06:38 PM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
In the pre- 9/11 days, when you were allowed to escort your family and friends to the gate to wish them farewell:
2 stories:
My grandmother sent her purse through the X-ray machine and the guy showed us the monitor, pointed, and asked "what's this? can I look in your bag?"
What we saw looked exactly like the silhouette of cartoon ACME bomb.
Turns out it was a makeup compact and a piece of yarn.
----
During college, I was in an electronics/programming class and had to build a digital clock. This involved a breadboard (look it up), a bunch of 7-segment displays, a CPU, and a lot of wire. My friends project was stuffed into a fishing tackle box and he was taking it on a trip home with him as carry-on. If anything looked like a time-detonated device, this was it.
He told the security guy, "you're gonna want to hand check this". Security's response: "OK, have a nice trip."
The good old days.
2 stories:
My grandmother sent her purse through the X-ray machine and the guy showed us the monitor, pointed, and asked "what's this? can I look in your bag?"
What we saw looked exactly like the silhouette of cartoon ACME bomb.
Turns out it was a makeup compact and a piece of yarn.
----
During college, I was in an electronics/programming class and had to build a digital clock. This involved a breadboard (look it up), a bunch of 7-segment displays, a CPU, and a lot of wire. My friends project was stuffed into a fishing tackle box and he was taking it on a trip home with him as carry-on. If anything looked like a time-detonated device, this was it.
He told the security guy, "you're gonna want to hand check this". Security's response: "OK, have a nice trip."
The good old days.
In '89 I took my Officer's Sword on the flight back home.
Sometime in 99-01 - I missed one flight and they rushed me to another, but I had to get my bag to the gate for gate check they said. At security I askedf to talk to the supervisor. I told him that I had military flight gear with me and there was a survival knife in the vest. He escorted me to the gate, checked the bag and that was the end of it!
USMCFLYR
12-04-2009 | 06:43 PM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
12-04-2009 | 07:59 PM
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12-05-2009 | 12:16 AM
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In my Navy days (long before 9/11), I had a TS/SCI courier card. Our classified items were NOT to be scanned, xrayed, or inspected. We missed about 20 percent of our flights due to security folks whose training had not included our authorization.
12-05-2009 | 08:32 AM
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Well I'm glad it was just "a control box for sanding equipment" that someone placed aboard the plane.
At least it wasn't "a box knife to open boxes" or "a gas can for filling chainsaws" or "blasting caps for mining equipment"
At least it wasn't "a box knife to open boxes" or "a gas can for filling chainsaws" or "blasting caps for mining equipment"
12-05-2009 | 09:00 AM
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From: A320 CA
I dread the day I may actually have to use a courier letter. At least it will be fun watching them slowly figure out that I can, in fact, tell them to pound sand (in a nice way).
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