Imagine being able to enter a country with a toy passport while being identified by customs agents as a purple unicorn. You might think “Yeah, right — that’ll be the day…when unicorns fly”, but that is apparently what happened at Antalya Airport in Turkey to a nine-year-old girl from South Wales when she was traveling with her parents on vacation. The passport…

After being pulled aside while attempting to pass through the security checkpoint at San Antonio International Airport for her trip to Orlando, Suzanne Steiner — a survivor of breast cancer — claims that a female agent of the Transportation Security Administration removed the prosthesis of her right breast from her bra without warning or notification, leaving her “nearly in tears” from the experience. What worsened the situation is that…

As first reported by The Gate on January 18, 2013, the 250 full-body scanners which used X-ray backscatter technology to screen passengers have been removed from airport security checkpoints in the United States — successfully having met a deadline of June 1, 2013 — at the expense of the manufacturer, according to the Transportation Security Administration. However — before you rejoice…

As a result of a suspicious package which was left behind in Tallahassee, three people were handcuffed and taken into custody by heavily armed law enforcement officers at Miami International Airport after a regional jet aircraft — which was operated by American Eagle as American Airlines flight 3491 — landed this morning and was directed to a secure area of the airport. After at least eight police cars — along with other emergency vehicles — caught up to the airplane…

While waiting with her husband for her sister to arrive at the baggage claim area of the international airport in Atlanta on the afternoon of Thursday, May 2, 2013, Susan Dubitsky was allegedly bitten by a dog who is owned by the Transportation Security Administration but was being handled by an officer of the Atlanta Police Department at the time. The Atlanta police officer and the dog were passing by Dubitsky when it reportedly bit her suddenly in the area of her abdomen — supposedly without warning and unprovoked. The dog allegedly attempted to attack Dubitsky again when…