ST. LOUIS – A company official says a United Airlines Express flight headed to Chicago had to return to St. Louis because of computer trouble in screening passengers.

Spokesman Fred Oxley said GoJet Airlines, the regional carrier operating the flight, had a problem with its computers Friday morning, and manually checked in passengers.

Oxley is a spokesman for Trans State Holdings, which owns GoJet. He says the computers started working after the flight took off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. That's when the carrier learned the name of one of the passengers matched one on the Transportation Security Administration's restricted passenger list.

Oxley says the flight returned around 8 a.m. and GoJet determined the passenger was not the same person on the list. The plane took off again around 9:30 a.m. and landed in Chicago.

 

Pretty sad how things like this can just happen. its up to an airline employee making near min. wage to 'catch' when someone is on a list. How hard do you think it would be to bribe them? the agents pencil whip the pax count at my airline all the time, mostly because the agents just don't care about things like security. you get what you pay for.

 

LOL yea they catch it when the person is already gone and in the air, and THEN order the plane back when for the time required to get back could have already gone to ORD. All to make sure Mohamed was not on. What joke of a bureaucracy, it's a byproduct of when people stop caring about their job.

 

With Gojets, it was probably one of the pilots...

 

lmfao.

 

Bashing GoJet pilots.. Did you know most of the pilots there are now furloguhed TWA,UNITED,ATA,MEDX it is not the same pilot groupe that started it. And let me tell you this we all want to leave but with this economy we are screwed...

 

Who Then Please, using your same rationale, would be in the left seat ?

 

are you guys missing this...they said it was a computer problem that was the cause of this..not people not caring or whatever you wanted to blame it on

 

nope but perhaps you are. How does it make any sense that intelligence lists fall to AIRLINE employees when we pay TSA to simply check that your I.D. matches your boarding pass? shouldn't it be the other way around?? This computer glitch simply highlights that an airline employee is only interested in moving the plane, when things go wrong they tend to bypass the little things like pax counts and watchlists to just 'put em on and push em out'.

 

its not the agents fault that they are trusted with this task and weren't at the time given the tools to do their job. how can you blame them?