A Delta flight was delayed while passengers were re-screened after a woman boarded the flight with no boarding pass who had also not passed through airport security screening. (www.wftv.com) 更多...
I think what's going to be discovered is that this woman came in on another flight, had some kind of mental breakdown, somehow used her boarding pass from a previous flight to get on this one, and her carryon (still on the plane) contains her wallet and ID. Or some set of circumstances like this.
45 min to get her off the plane? After refusing all crew requests, whatever happened to the old days when the Police would get a straight back wheel chair, clear two rows ahead and behind the pax refusing to get off, then show that person the “Taser” on your belt and say you can walk off or be wheeled off, your choice and you have 5 seconds to decide.......just kidding, makes you wonder though.
The reason for the delay is because of United Flight 3411. 80 people with cell phone videos managed to turn a total and complete psychopath into a "victim of the airlines". The DL crew was obviously doing everything they could to keep the situation from escalating. Trust me, if they'd have tried anything physical to get this nut job off the plane, the social media brown shirts would have been out in force calling out DL for removing an innocent passenger for doing nothing at all other than insisting this was her seat.
It was Chicago Department of Aviation Security officers who dragged Dao off the flight he was involuntary removed from and it was a United Express flight operated by Republic Airlines. I doubt United has any control over police actions and protocol but ultimate oversight of their partners (which I would remind increases the cost of the ticket) is certainly an issue that I am sure has been thoroughly addressed and remedied.
The passengers should be able to sue this woman for wasting their time and possible missed connections, meetings, etc. Also, I get a rectal exam everytime I go through the airport, so how did she get into the Secure Area and through TSA as well, not to mention on the plane! Our govt at (not) work.
I don't think the woman is a "con artist",nor trying to get a flight for free..i think she has some definite mental issues and thought she was "all set" to go..its surprising she was not caught by the tsa scrreners at first contact..however, she did managed to get through security screening and onto the plane without a boarding pass issued,using her phone..the first thing tsa asks you for is your photo id issued by the government,not a phone picture,and the second thing is your boarding pass..you cant just "wave" a cell phone..now i understand the new systems allow you you to run your phones boarding pass bar code over the gate reader to board,but thats not the case with tsa (or is not supposed to be)and this woman could not have forged a seat number on her phone...wow..lax security and even worse,lax procedures by the gate agents..delta should refund all of those passengers their ticket fees..
The Last flight I took a few months ago TSA scanned the boarding pass from my phone, so I think it is implemented now. Regardless of a phone pass or a physical boarding pass, it is crazy she got this far.
This episode kinda reminds me of the time a woman placed 2 bottles of juice in my groceries, set on the conveyor belt ready for the cashier to scan. She had in earbuds and was singing a hymn and didn't respond to my "excuse me". The cashier refused to scan her juice, she'd done that thing before.
I think you're exactly right. This and so many other examples like this make me think the airlines are totally within their rights to require a "fit for flight" document from each passenger, certified by their primary care physician or psychiatrist.
This episode make some. "sense", I get on a Delta plane in Atlanta, passing through the security protocols... arrive in MCO and decide that I can't deal with my in-laws and have to go back to Atlanta pronto. Fortunately, thank goodness, theirs a flight back to Atlanta in this concourse. But as luck has it, I curtly pass those that are scanning their boarding passes and sit in a seat that has been assigned. Oh darn...picked the wrong seat...
I have always had to present ID at the security screening. And again at the gate. Total breakdown of the system. All who worked that process need to be suspended and then of they desire to keep their jobs , required to go through training. Also demotion to the lowest pay level.
Why, when the system itself is broken, do people always want to go after some low ranking person’s job?
You don’t know how it happened, and you’re implying that a bunch of people working for different organizations coincidentally decided to slough their duty. I doubt that’s what actually happened.
It has now been reported that the woman is not facing any charges in this whole fiasco. If she tried to use a boarding pass on her phone, and just waved it as some are presuming to do, then why did she did state that she threw the boarding pass out. She should have been charged for breaking into a secure area, but as to why she wasn't, no one seems to know.
As I am in the Orlando area and have heard something about this almost every day for a week, including the fact that she isn't going to be charged lets me know what has been going on. She told authorities that she threw the boarding pass out. So, how did she throw a pass out if she used a phone boarding pass?
This all screening is one big bullshit. Inefficient and obtrusive (dare I say abusive?) to innocent passengers. It only takes one such woman to take down a plane full of people...
Makes one wonder what exactly the 'beep' does on the scan machines TSA has.
I feel for the affected pax, but the reality is DL won't proactively reach out to them. All they'll get (if they log a complaint on the website) is an insincere apology and 20,000 lousy miles, which is about as worthless as a one-armed wallpaper hangar.
My wife and I were also seated on a Delta flight ready to depart from Atlanta to Tampa. A rather rude and angry American woman turned up and accused us of having taken up her seat. After we managed to locate a flight attendant, she requested to see her boarding pass who pointed out to her that it was for another flight. The American woman then disappeared without even apologizing.
My apologies for making it sound that I am running Americans down. My wife and I visit the USA every year and find American people very friendly and tolerant.
I bet she just waved her phone at each security station. Instead of having her stand aside until she was able to show an easily faked PhotoShop the highly trained agents of the TSA let her pass. I wonder if they asked her if she wanted fries with her order as they have been trained at their last job. Same issue at the gate.
Forty-five minutes to mitigate a threat is curious and/or a sad commentary on the current state of fear regarding terror threats and political correctness... could she have been a plant to test aircrew reaction time? Could she have been a test for TSA? If she was a threat she would have been dragged off or wheeled off in a stairway chair after being tased or shot... My concern is she passed a security check point and the blue plate specials didn't figure that out until she'd had ample time to bomb an aircraft, kill some folks or squirrel away in a shitter...