Originally Posted by
goalie
But carry-on luggage still has to be x-ray'd, right? And with that, the f/a left the U.S. with a handgun in her carry-on luggage and said handgun was not detected* by the TSA and thus another big fail by our favorite group of Thousands Standing Around.
*assembled or dis-assembled, this is something that the "highly trained TSA professionals"
are supposed to find and they missed it-
plane and simple!
Apparently not.
If FA is a 'known crewmember', she could have bypassed security completely by showing her ID/being in uniform. They don't get scanned, their bags don't get x-rayed (other than infrequent 'random' checks).
TSA may have never seen her bag.