United Passenger Boards With Loaded Gun, Sits In First Class--Bodycam Shows Police Storm Plane And Yank Him Off

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1. Yikes!

TSA had found the firearm at the checkpoint – which is more than past DHS Inspector General reports would lead you to expect – but they were allowed to simply grab their bag and walk away. That was a major failure by the agency.

The article calls this a "major failure," but to be fair, he would have never have been caught if the TSA hadn't been scanning the luggage, and the story doesn’t say whether they tried to stop him from walking away. It may be that they're instructed to notify to notify LE when someone with a suspicious item in their bag just keeps going.

I'm also going to guess all planes in that part of the airport were notified not to take off until they located the guy. All in all, I'd say the system actually worked pretty well.