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: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:13PM (1 child)
But North Korea is doing it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel [wikipedia.org]
I was also going to complain about pyramids but I gave the comment an extreme benefit of the doubt. Maybe you could have a stepped pyramid with a fairly steep slope and it might accomplish the goal while not being totally space inefficient. Or it might just give you a bumpy death.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @06:20PM
Or we could mandate fall-speed-reducing awnings every third floor or so.
I mean they'll act like sails and bend the building sideways in a storm (or a normal day on a tall enough sky scraper? I think wind speeds get pretty high up there.) But an occasional sky scraper blowing over is a small price to pay to reduce suicides ...