It Happened Again! Oooh, Too Much Liquid!
Security breach grounds Vancouver's international flights
Last Updated: Friday, January 5, 2007 | 3:27 PM PT
CBC News
Thousands of passengers at Vancouver's airport are facing lengthy delays after a security breach Friday forced officials to hold flights departing from the international terminal.
The incident occurred around 11:20 a.m. PT during the busiest time for international flights.
The problem started when a man carrying too much liquid through security left the secure area to give the liquid to his family, said Anna Karina Tabonar, spokeswoman for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority.
"He went back to the pre-board screening checkpoint, where he was supposed to fall in line to be rescreened," she told CBC News Friday.
However, instead of being rescreened, the man went straight through the checkpoint. "Perhaps he didn't realize that he needed to be rescreened," she said.
"As a precaution, we've closed the operations in the international terminal to locate this passenger," Tabonar said.
The airport removed all the passengers waiting for international flights from the terminal and rescreen them all.
The closure has resulted in a backlog of about 3,000 passengers and at least 10 flights. Domestic and incoming flights are not affected, Tabonar said.
This is even worse than the time they shut down the airport in 2005 because of some goombah who wandered through the wrong door with his backpack: http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/84811.html.
I say again, no system is foolproof because:
a) fools are so ingenious; and
b) fools are trying to implement the system in the first place.
[PS: How much liquid is too much, anyway? Is it possible to bring down an aircraft with urine?]
Last Updated: Friday, January 5, 2007 | 3:27 PM PT
CBC News
Thousands of passengers at Vancouver's airport are facing lengthy delays after a security breach Friday forced officials to hold flights departing from the international terminal.
The incident occurred around 11:20 a.m. PT during the busiest time for international flights.
The problem started when a man carrying too much liquid through security left the secure area to give the liquid to his family, said Anna Karina Tabonar, spokeswoman for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority.
"He went back to the pre-board screening checkpoint, where he was supposed to fall in line to be rescreened," she told CBC News Friday.
However, instead of being rescreened, the man went straight through the checkpoint. "Perhaps he didn't realize that he needed to be rescreened," she said.
"As a precaution, we've closed the operations in the international terminal to locate this passenger," Tabonar said.
The airport removed all the passengers waiting for international flights from the terminal and rescreen them all.
The closure has resulted in a backlog of about 3,000 passengers and at least 10 flights. Domestic and incoming flights are not affected, Tabonar said.
This is even worse than the time they shut down the airport in 2005 because of some goombah who wandered through the wrong door with his backpack: http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/84811.html.
I say again, no system is foolproof because:
a) fools are so ingenious; and
b) fools are trying to implement the system in the first place.
[PS: How much liquid is too much, anyway? Is it possible to bring down an aircraft with urine?]