The question still remains....what happened to the screeners? ...I'm still perplexed on how this works. A person (lady) walks past/through security (whatever)..and what happens at the security area? Do all the screeners look at each other 10 minutes later and ask one another. Karen asks, "Margaret, did you screen that lady in the white blouse and blue pants that stepped through the detector 10 minutes ago"? Margaret says, "no I didn't, I thought you did." John asks Mike, "there was a lady here about 10 minutes ago, you didn't happen to notice if we (anyone) screened the middle-aged lady in a white blouse and blue pants that was here about 10 minutes ago." "Oh crap", says Mike. "Supervisor!!! We have a breach!!!" Then every one yells, "LOCK DOWN close down security"....and gates close and bells and whistles go off...:). So how in the heck does this happen... ...and why blame it on the lady when obviously it was the screeners who messed up...<for lack of a better term>...why not question them? Which hasn't even been mentioned. In other words, the screeners are immune and the lady is not? I know the obvious here, but I have to make it comical because it is in a sort of way. Walter DCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Irwin" <stepheni@cwnet.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 20:38 Subject: Re: Oakland Security Breached > >From someone who knows something about this incident I would caution folks > not to accept everything you read in the paper as either complete or > accurate. This evacuation was absolutely the right thing to do given the > fact we had an identified breach and no one could tell me there weren't > others who might have gained access the same way. BTW, she was a middle-aged > white lady. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <damiross@attbi.com> > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:23 PM > Subject: Re: Oakland Security Breached > > > Why question her? There's a good possibility she was a > elderly white lady. As everyone knows, these are the > type of people that are most likely to be a terrorist at > the airport. > > To evacuate the entire airport and delay many flights is > absurd. And, it cost Southwest and other airlines > thousands of dollars just because the federal government > has taken over the "security" of airports. > > If you want to do something in the least effetive way, > just let the government do it. > > -- > David Ross > http://home.attbi.com/~damiross > > Why question her? They need to question the idoits who were not paying > > attention. > > I thought they were not going to evacuate terminals anymore. Or what ever > > became of that grand idea? Has that not taken affect yet? > > > > Walter > > DCA > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <damiross@attbi.com> > > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 19:12 > > Subject: Oakland Security Breached > > > > > > > I just LOVE the great "security" we have at airports - > > > and the reaction to breaching it. (for those who are > > > sarcasm impaired - that was sarcasm) > > > > > > Oakland security breached; airport shut > > > By the Mercury News > > > > > > A woman who inadvertently slipped past a security > > > checkpoint Monday night triggered Oakland International > > > Airport's first major security breach since Sept. 11. > > > > > > The incident, which happened on former San Francisco > > > Police Chief Fred Lau's first day as head of airport > > > security, led to the evacuation of two terminals holding > > > thousands of passengers and the grounding of 16 flights. > > > > > > The woman, who went to the airport to pick up her > > > husband, bypassed security checkpoints about 6:40 p.m. > > > and walked to an airport gate where the mistake was > > > discovered. She was escorted to security and the > > > terminals were locked down to make sure no one else had > > > gotten by screeners. > > > > > > ``We don't know at this point how she did it,'' said > > > airport operations specialist Todd Anderson. ``But it > > > appears to be an honest mistake.'' > > > > > > The woman, whose name was not released, was questioned > > > by Oakland police and released. No charges were filed. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > David Ross > > > http://home.attbi.com/~damiross > > > >