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MCO Flyer Feb 2, 2019 11:37 am
MCO Security Breach 2/2/2019
 
Heads up for anyone flying in an out of MCO today. A TSA officer committed suicide by jumping from a balcony in the Hyatt Atrium inside the airport and 4 people were able to breach security after panic erupted after a loud bang noise was heard. Everyone in Airsides 2 & 4 (Gates 70-129) had to be re-screened again and there are now massive lines and delays as a result of this.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/secu...-say/913554953

Jon_R Feb 2, 2019 12:55 pm
I was getting ready to jump in the shower to head to the airport for a 330 flight to Atl onto LAX. Called delta and pushed it to tomorrow via slc. I saw the nightmare that was becoming mco and didn’t want to end up stuck in Atl looking for a hotel superbowl eve.

Sorry about the agent and his/her family.

NoStressHere Feb 2, 2019 2:03 pm
A bit more over on the Southwest forum for whatever reason.

Orlando airport security is normally a mess - add in Saturday with heavy vacation and cruise traffic and - yikes!

By time most read this , they are probably getting back in shape.

mnbp Feb 2, 2019 2:21 pm
The incident happened at about 9:30 am. Incident response and clearing airside areas to allow pax screening to restart took until about 11:25 am.

ATLflyer2017 Feb 2, 2019 8:48 pm
I think the title of this thread is misleading. There was no "security breach". Therefore I don't think it is appropriate to say there was such...it could cause people to go into a panic.

MCO Flyer Feb 2, 2019 9:03 pm
Originally Posted by jackvogt (Post 30733168)
I think the title of this thread is misleading. There was no "security breach". Therefore I don't think it is appropriate to say there was such...it could cause people to go into a panic.
Yes there was a security breach. 4 passengers ran through the checkpoint afterwards unscreened as I assume they may have thought the noise was a gunshot.

NoStressHere Feb 2, 2019 9:10 pm
Yes, a minimal security breach.

A reasonable management team would have let it go. But our insane "better safe than sorry" thinking means we need to rescreen a few thousand people, even those already on planes.

N830MH Feb 4, 2019 10:24 pm
Originally Posted by MCO Flyer (Post 30733208)


Yes there was a security breach. 4 passengers ran through the checkpoint afterwards unscreened as I assume they may have thought the noise was a gunshot.
No, there's no gunshots. It was TSA screener that he jumping off balcony. He was committed suicide. He was being killed.


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