TSO Assaults AA Pilot With Hot Coffee (JFK)
Apr 4, 2012, 5:52 am
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TSO Assaults AA Pilot With Hot Coffee (JFK)
Good thing the other 49,999 TSA employees are professionals. 
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...IMbxUzbYoH5HGP
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...IMbxUzbYoH5HGP
She should switch to decaf.
A TSA screener was arrested at JFK Airport for hurling a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down a profanity- laced conversation in a terminal, sources said yesterday.
The dust-up occurred at about 5 a.m. on March 28, when airman Steven Trivett, 54, who was off-duty, was exiting Terminal 8 and overheard the banter, according to Port Authority police sources.
Trivett, of Butler, Tenn., told them they should “conduct themselves more professionally in uniform and not use profanity or the n-word,” a source explained.
One screener told him to “mind his own business” and cursed him out.
Trivett then identified himself as a “TSA officer” who is an armed pilot.
When he tried to grab at the ID tags of screener Lateisha El, 30, she pushed him and tossed a “full cup” of hot coffee on him, police say.
Trivett was not seriously injured. El, of Brooklyn’s East New York, was given a desk-appearance ticket on harassment and misdemeanor-assault charges.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...#ixzz1r4VTCaKH
A TSA screener was arrested at JFK Airport for hurling a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down a profanity- laced conversation in a terminal, sources said yesterday.
The dust-up occurred at about 5 a.m. on March 28, when airman Steven Trivett, 54, who was off-duty, was exiting Terminal 8 and overheard the banter, according to Port Authority police sources.
Trivett, of Butler, Tenn., told them they should “conduct themselves more professionally in uniform and not use profanity or the n-word,” a source explained.
One screener told him to “mind his own business” and cursed him out.
Trivett then identified himself as a “TSA officer” who is an armed pilot.
When he tried to grab at the ID tags of screener Lateisha El, 30, she pushed him and tossed a “full cup” of hot coffee on him, police say.
Trivett was not seriously injured. El, of Brooklyn’s East New York, was given a desk-appearance ticket on harassment and misdemeanor-assault charges.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...#ixzz1r4VTCaKH
Apr 4, 2012, 9:19 am
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Originally Posted by So-Called-Journalists
cursed him out.
I know this is the post, but still.......
Apr 4, 2012, 9:27 am
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AA Pilots are TSA Officers? I know some are allowed to carry arms with certification from them but does that make them defacto TSA Officers?
Apr 4, 2012, 10:20 am
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The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks tragically demonstrated the need for a multi-layered approach to securing commercial airliners -- and in particular the cockpit -- from terrorist and criminal assault. In addition to improved security at airport checkpoints, the use of federal air marshals, and the hardening of cockpit doors, the Transportation Security Administration developed the Federal Flight Deck Officer program as an additional layer of security.
Under this program, eligible flight crewmembers are authorized by the Transportation Security Administration Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service to use firearms to defend against an act of criminal violence or air piracy attempting to gain control of an aircraft. A flight crew member may be a pilot, flight engineer or navigator assigned to the flight.
In December 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that expanded program eligibility to include cargo pilots and certain other flight crewmembers.
Federal Flight Deck Officers are trained by the Federal Air Marshal Service on the use of firearms, use of force, legal issues, defensive tactics, the psychology of survival and program standard operating procedures. Flight crew members participating in the program are not eligible for compensation from the Federal Government for services provided as a Federal Flight Deck Officer.
They may or may not be TSA officers, but they are Federal Flight Deck Officers
Apr 4, 2012, 10:24 am
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I can get behind Calling a Pilot an Officer...especially the First Officer but not a TSA Officer. I prefer not to insult the people that are in the front of the plane.
Federal Flight Deck Officers
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks tragically demonstrated the need for a multi-layered approach to securing commercial airliners -- and in particular the cockpit -- from terrorist and criminal assault. In addition to improved security at airport checkpoints, the use of federal air marshals, and the hardening of cockpit doors, the Transportation Security Administration developed the Federal Flight Deck Officer program as an additional layer of security.
Under this program, eligible flight crewmembers are authorized by the Transportation Security Administration Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service to use firearms to defend against an act of criminal violence or air piracy attempting to gain control of an aircraft. A flight crew member may be a pilot, flight engineer or navigator assigned to the flight.
In December 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that expanded program eligibility to include cargo pilots and certain other flight crewmembers.
Federal Flight Deck Officers are trained by the Federal Air Marshal Service on the use of firearms, use of force, legal issues, defensive tactics, the psychology of survival and program standard operating procedures. Flight crew members participating in the program are not eligible for compensation from the Federal Government for services provided as a Federal Flight Deck Officer.
They may or may not be TSA officers, but they are Federal Flight Deck Officers
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks tragically demonstrated the need for a multi-layered approach to securing commercial airliners -- and in particular the cockpit -- from terrorist and criminal assault. In addition to improved security at airport checkpoints, the use of federal air marshals, and the hardening of cockpit doors, the Transportation Security Administration developed the Federal Flight Deck Officer program as an additional layer of security.
Under this program, eligible flight crewmembers are authorized by the Transportation Security Administration Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service to use firearms to defend against an act of criminal violence or air piracy attempting to gain control of an aircraft. A flight crew member may be a pilot, flight engineer or navigator assigned to the flight.
In December 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that expanded program eligibility to include cargo pilots and certain other flight crewmembers.
Federal Flight Deck Officers are trained by the Federal Air Marshal Service on the use of firearms, use of force, legal issues, defensive tactics, the psychology of survival and program standard operating procedures. Flight crew members participating in the program are not eligible for compensation from the Federal Government for services provided as a Federal Flight Deck Officer.
They may or may not be TSA officers, but they are Federal Flight Deck Officers
Apr 4, 2012, 10:39 am
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Trivett should be glad it was just coffee, and not the usual missiles that the primates at the zoo fling.
Apr 4, 2012, 10:43 am
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I'm guessing it is just bad reporting and the pilot is a FFDO. Also brings into question exactly what "grabbing" was, but as the pilot was not charged with assault and the TSO was....
Apr 4, 2012, 10:49 am
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Is it me, or does that last statement come over as racist?
Apr 4, 2012, 10:58 am
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Apr 4, 2012, 11:05 am
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This is just today's entry in the TSA Crime Blotter.
"The actions of this one indvivual, acting on her own, do not reflect upon the more than 50,000 dedicated professional TSA employees who yada, yada, yada..."
"The actions of this one indvivual, acting on her own, do not reflect upon the more than 50,000 dedicated professional TSA employees who yada, yada, yada..."