TBD

How come no one hit the e-stop button?! I know I've seen these at airports. The kid may have slipped behind the rubber curtain, but may have been spared the x-ray machine!

WillCAD

One of the Spirit people did hit the stop button, but too late - the kid had already passed beyond Spirit's portion of the belt system into the screening area.

TBD

Ugh .. and obviously ... why would it stop the system beyond that point? /eyeroll

WillCAD

A major airport's baggage system is a massive collection of belts, with inputs at each airline, feeding into one or more TSA inline screening rooms behind the scenes. Shut down buttons don't shut down the entire baggage system for the entire airport, they only shut down a portion of the system. After all, if you get a bag stuck at Spirit, why would you shut down Delta or Southwest's belts?

You can criticize the mom for not keeping her toddler under positive control in a crowded, noisy, distracting environment, or blame the Spirit employees for not watching the belt or hitting the stop button quickly enough, but criticizing the stop button for not shutting down the whole system is like criticizing NYPD for not shutting down the entire New York subway system when someone falls onto the tracks in a station.

TBD

No, I wouldn't want Spirit's e-stop to shut down Delta's baggage system ... which is why I didn't say (and obviously wouldn't suggest) that the button shut the whole system down ....

N830MH

Yes, they did, but it was too late for that. They did not catch him and he was disappearing from ticket counter.

No, they didn't stop the belts. They didn't watch the kids. They supposed to watch the children and not to leave behind.

Actually, TSA officers is wait for him at the secondary screening room. He took him back to his mother.