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Confusion and delays at Orlando airport after TSA agent falls to his death
An off-duty Transportation Security Administration officer fell to his death Saturday from a hotel balcony inside Florida's Orlando International Airport, officials said, sending confused travelers scattering past security checkpoints unscreened and causing flight delays.
There were varying descriptions about what happened. Orlando police said a man in his 40s jumped, in an apparent suicide, from the Hyatt Regency Hotel onto an atrium floor in the main terminal at about 9:30 a.m. ET.
TSA spokeswoman Jenny Burke identified the man as an off-duty TSA officer, and said he fell from one of the multilevel hotel's balconies, which overlooks an area where people line up for one of the airport's security checkpoints.
[...] Trista Eaden told Spectrum News 13, a CNN affiliate, that she was waiting in line for screening when she heard a loud bang. "Then I saw the TSA agents standing up, and all of a sudden they just told us to run, to just go through the screening," Eaden said. The TSA said that several passengers scattered past the security areas without screening. All passengers at gates 70 to 129 had to be rescreened, the airport said.
Also at the Orlando Sentinel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:05PM (1 child)
We don't have an "international zone" at airports. You will need a visa to transit here. And if you are wanted by US justice, if you come into our grasp, you will stay here for a while.
Reality is, demonstrated progressively aggressively since Baby Bush, that the US is strong and your pissant country is weak. Your country is so dependent on us, that you will screw your own citizens just to please our whims. We want something, we get it. And you may not like it, but you will submit.
Funny that we can still apply so much pressure, even as our country and society is falling apart internally. I guess we are blessed with both geography and a citizenry that is willing to go to war while living at the edge if the dumpster.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @09:08PM
Just so you know, you don't need a visa from certain countries for limited time business/pleasure.