Wow! This apparently happened earlier in the week,and I'm not quite certain how I missed it. A Barbados-bound American Airlines flight was charged by armed police and evacuated after the TSA made a mistake screening one of the passenger's bags.
Via ABC News:"The Transportation Security Administration says that "standard procedures were not adhered to" during when dental equipment set off a bag scare at Miami International Airport Monday, closing two security checkpoints and delaying 50 flights before it was determined the items weren't a threat.
The FBI in Miami said a passenger -- a dentist -- went through security just before 5 p.m. and "it was later determined that items in his carry-on bag looked suspicious."A transportation security officer had stopped the X-ray machine at a checkpoint to conduct further screening of the carry-on bag, or but "in the process of transitioning other passengers to an adjacent screening lane,standard procedures were not adhered to and the passenger was allowed to depart the checkpoint and proceed into the terminal," said TSA spokesman Mike England."The post TSA Doesn’t execute Their Job, and Armed Officers Charge Plane appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com