Handgun handed off at airport, gets on US plane

[Hadenough]

I cannot believe the stupidity and insulting nature of some of the posts in this thread.

 

[nycbusdriver]

I cannot believe the stupidity and insulting nature of some of the posts in this thread.

Mirror?

 

[28L_or_10R?]

I cannot believe the stupidity and insulting nature of some of the posts in this thread.

Could you be more specific?

 

[Richard]

Let's stay on subject. No more union rhetoric, and no more comments aimed at individual posters.

Discuss the incident itself.

 

[robbedagain]

what will or should say can the union due tohelp the employee if anything i realize that this is grounds for termination but i do recall that a pilot got fired or suspended for firing a gun in the cockpit

 

[UPNAWAY]

Not the same but the Alabama teacher sentanced to 10 years in prison (Sexual asault on a 14 year old) and already serving her time still draws her salary becuase of union rules. Until all appeals are finished she still gets paid, wow.

 

[Edward]

There has already been a warning about staying on topic. If this can not get back to the original topic we will just say it's ran it's course & close it.

 

[Ralph]

If you have a problem with a moderator action or decision, the pm feature is the proper venue. Public posts challenging moderator actions will be deleted, and the poster will be given time off without further discussion.

 

[ChockJockey]

I found out that when the A/C arrived in PHX, the airport had bomb sneefing dogs around the
belt, the dog sneffed out 7 big rubber containers in the employee's name, in the containers
were guns and drugs, this came from an US employee in PHX.

I haven't heard anything like that at all. Wasn't that plane and all the baggage sniffed out in PHL prior to departure? Seems to me that if it was they'd have found "7 big rubber containers" containing drugs and guns. Not sure who your contact is in PHX; you might want to sneef one out that has a better handle on the truth...

 

[nycbusdriver]

I haven't heard anything like that at all. Wasn't that plane and all the baggage sniffed out in PHL prior to departure? Seems to me that if it was they'd have found "7 big rubber containers" containing drugs and guns. Not sure who your contact is in PHX; you might want to sneef one out that has a better handle on the truth...

It sounds like a typical "urban legend" that one finds on the internet and has zero basis in reality.

Had those 7 containers actually been found, the whole thing would have been plastered on at least the 11 o'clock news in Phoenix, and possibly on national television. There is no way that a police coup like that would not have been exploited to the media to maximum effect.

The fact that it didn't hit the news means that it really never happened.

 

[dexter]

From what I am hearing the Union was on site immediately. They put out a small statement and are representing the employee. After all he is not guilty until proven so. Have not check out the my space page about the "women"? What does that have to do with this incident?

 

[FA Mikey]

A fired airline worker is "mortified" at the lapse in judgment that led him to help a friend get an unloaded gun on a plane, his lawyer said.

Roshid Milledge, 38, of Philadelphia pleaded guilty to a related weapons charge in federal court Friday. He faces a possible six-month prison term but will seek probation.

According to his lawyer, Carina Laguzzi, Milledge never went through a security screening from the time he picked up the roommate's laptop bag at the check-in counter -- just inside the airport -- until the men switched bags at the gate.

"He is mortified about what this is doing to his name and his family," Laguzzi said after the plea hearing.

Milledge had worked for US Airways for four years and had never before been arrested, she said.

full article here

 

[PHL]

"Laguzzi disputed FBI accounts that the men planned the switch, and instead said her client picked up his friend's bag in the haste of their arrival at the airport that morning and agreed to switch it back at the gate."


Is this suggesting the scenario that they drove to the airport together, but the passenger(friend) grabbed the wrong bag when they got there (parking lot? curbside?), so the employee - via cell phone - told the friend he'd bring it to him at the gate.

That still begs the question that the TSA, USAirways and the PHL airport authority will have to answer, as well.....
HOW DID THE EMPLOYEE GET INTO THE STERILE AREA WITHOUT A SCREENING.

 

[nycbusdriver]

HOW DID THE EMPLOYEE GET INTO THE STERILE AREA WITHOUT A SCREENING.

I really don't mean to be flippant, but are you seriously unaware that airline employees (who work at a particular airport) never go through screening to get into the sterile area? There are doors that bypass screening and are accessed with their airport ID.

Only aircrews are routinely screened, because they cannot be trusted to access the sterile area otherwise. Of course, the pilots then get behind the controls of the very airplane they are not trusted to access and given ultimate determination of the operation of that airplane full of passengers.

 

[PHL]

That was not a flippant response, but thanks for clarifying. I think I was somehow under the delusion that all staff - front of house or back - went through some kind of screening.