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TSA Pat-Down Leaves Passenger Covered in Urine
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 21) -- A Michigan man who survived bladder cancer in 2007 has now been forced to survive humiliation at the hands of the TSA, whose airport screeners spilled urine on him during a recent security check at Detroit's airport. Courtesy Elizabeth Sawyer Danowski Michigan cancer survivor Thomas Sawyer says he was left covered in his own urine when a TSA agent broke the seal on his urostomy bag during a pat-down. Thomas Sawyer, 61, was flying to Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 7 with his wife to attend a wedding. Since having part of his bladder removed because of cancer, Sawyer wears a urostomy ...
Lady Gaga-Inspired Flight Attendants 'Just Dance'
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Oct. 7) -- Flotation devices can be found under the seat cushions. Dance parties can be found in the aisles. Flight attendants for Cebu Pacific Air have turned the preflight safety demonstration into a pop music party with a little help from Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. Instead of the standard spiel about emergency exits and smoking in the lavatories, video captured by a passenger aboard a flight on the Philippine carrier shows a troupe of flight attendants sashaying their way down the aisle to the sound of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance." The cabin crew struts its stuff and dances with props ...
Airline Safety: Congress Demands More Training for Regional Pilots
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRegional airlines -- derided by some as "puddle jumpers" -- will be forced to hire more experienced and better trained pilots under an aviation safety bill approved by Congress Friday and sent to President Obama for his signature. The impetus was the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that took 49 lives near the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport on Feb. 12, 2009. A National Transportation Safety Board investigation faulted actions by the aircraft's pilots, and also shortcomings in pilot training at Colgan Air, the regional carrier contracted by Continental. The last six fatal ...
Obama Shuffles Off to Buffalo on Leg of 'Main St.' Tour
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama headed to Main Street, U.S.A. again. This time the venue for his meet-and-greet stop-off with ordinary Americans was Buffalo, N.Y., where on Thursday he toured a small manufacturing plant and met with families of the victims of a fatal plane crash near the city last year. It was the latest of several so-called Main Street tours -- a deliberate and highly visible demonstration of the president's willingness to get away from the confines of Washington. Last month, he was in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, talking to farmers and small business owners -- and sampling ...
Opinion: I Want My GPS Back!
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 1) – Of all the indignities hurled at travelers in the wake of the Christmas Day bomb attempt, none has been more distressing than the Transportation Security Administration's directive that airlines disable their global positioning systems. Immediately after the incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, TSA ordered a shutdown of in-flight navigation systems, and has since left the decision to reinstate GPS to the discretion of individual airlines. Many pilots have continued the order on the thinking that jihadists who couldn't plot their whereabouts in the sky would refrain from ...
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