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Guns, grenades and other weapons to leave home

08/11/08

I spent a lot of time chatting with TSA folks last week while working on an article about guns and other prohibited items travelers keep trying to take through airport security checkpoints. To be honest, it gave me nightmares. Especially after a TSA spokesperson sent me a photo of a shipment of snakes discovered at →

Staying alive at the airport and on the airplane

08/07/08

Late last month, as a red-eye Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta was preparing to land, crew members found an unresponsive passenger in the jet’s lavatory. Medical professionals were on the flight but, when the plane landed, authorities confirmed that 61-year-old Michaele O’Neil Carnahan had passed away. Having a passenger die on an airplane →

Sea-Tac Airport: “Pay no attention to the dead people on the runway”

07/30/08

The Federal Aviation Administration requires airports to test their airfield disaster preparedness and response at least once every three years. That’s probably a good thing. But airport runways are busy places, so it’s sort of hard to go all out and have a “true to life” test of what it would be like if there →

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A whale, a panda, and a friar go to the airport…

07/10/08

Heard that one before? On July 4th, San Diego International Airport (SAN) introduced a new set of videos at the security checkpoints. Starring roles are played by the San Diego Zoo’s Bamboo Bear, Legoland’s Johnny Thunder, the San Diego Padres’ Friar, and Shamu from SeaWorld. Want to see a whale going through the metal detector? →

Fly the skittish skies

07/09/08

“Sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.” No matter what your pilot tells you, taking a plane trip these days is likely to be irritating, uncomfortable and, often, quite maddening. For millions of people it’s all that and absolutely frightening. Despite statistics that tell us flying is one of the safest modes of travel, many →

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Fear of Flying class

Save a life on a layover at Detroit Metro Airport

06/05/08

AEDs – Automated External Defibrillators – are standard items at airports these days and there have been plenty of instances where these devices have made the difference in saving lives. Do you know how an AED works? I don’t and I should. We all should. And if you have a few minutes to spare at →

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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Sleep-over at DFW! You bring the s’mores.

04/08/08

American Airlines canceled another 500 flights on Tuesday to check a wiring issue on their fleet of MD-80 airplanes. 193 of those canceled flights were scheduled to depart from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Some displaced travelers have been put up at hotels. Others got out of there on non-MD-80 flights. Still, a lot of people →

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