Wheel chair pusher question [JFK T8 on June 21 3:00 pm]
Jun 22, 2016, 1:44 pm
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Wheel chair pusher question [JFK T8 on June 21 3:00 pm]
While I was waiting to go through the scanning machine, a [contract?] agent rolled a woman in a wheel chair up to the scanner, she got out of the WC and walked through, the pusher was permitted to roll the WC through a gate which was opened for him--he did NOT go through the detector; isn't there a potential security risk in the way this is handled?
Jun 22, 2016, 2:09 pm
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While I was waiting to go through the scanning machine, a [contract?] agent rolled a woman in a wheel chair up to the scanner, she got out of the WC and walked through, the pusher was permitted to roll the WC through a gate which was opened for him--he did NOT go through the detector; isn't there a potential security risk in the way this is handled?
Jun 22, 2016, 8:15 pm
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While I was waiting to go through the scanning machine, a [contract?] agent rolled a woman in a wheel chair up to the scanner, she got out of the WC and walked through, the pusher was permitted to roll the WC through a gate which was opened for him--he did NOT go through the detector; isn't there a potential security risk in the way this is handled?
Did the wheelchair pusher take the individual to the gate?
Did you notice if anyone screened the whhelchair?
Jun 22, 2016, 9:37 pm
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I assume that since the woman needed a WC to get to security, coupled with the pusher going through the "special" lane with the WC, that he would take her to the gate.
Jun 23, 2016, 11:45 am
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