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Old Dec 27, 2010, 7:39 am
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RichardKenner
 
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
For me, the bigger question is this. Why didn't they dump the whole terminal like they did in Newark when Wrong Way Corrigan got past the exit?
Because in DFW, there are connections between all the terminals airside, so they'd have to dump the entire airport and this clearly didn't rise to the level of needing to do that.

By the way, this does show the point that the TSA can't detain anybody.
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