The Transportation Safety Administration is investigating how a tickletless lady at Nashville Worldwide Airport boarded a flight headed for Los Angeles with out going by TSA’s first checkpoint.
On Feb. 7, a traveler hopped over one of many safety stanchions at Nashville Worldwide Airport, bypassing the primary TSA checkpoint — the place fliers are requested to indicate identification and a boarding cross — and blended again into the safety line, Mark Howell, spokesperson for the southern area of the TSA, advised KTLA 5.
That is the second time in 4 months {that a} traveler with no boarding cross has gotten on a airplane headed for Los Angeles.
In November, a person with Russian and Israeli passports boarded a airplane in Denver with no ticket, visa or passport. He was sentenced to 93 days and ordered to pay a $2,174 high quality this month.
Within the newest incident, the feminine traveler was bodily screened, together with their carry-on gadgets, with out incident on the Nashville airport earlier than boarding the flight, mentioned Lorie Dankers, TSA spokesperson for the western area.
“TSA and its airline companions are cooperating with the continuing regulation enforcement investigation,” Dankers mentioned.
The FBI mentioned it responded to a report “of a person who bought on an American Airways flight with no ticket and flew from Nashville to Los Angeles,” mentioned Lourdes Arocho, public data officer for the FBI’s Los Angeles Discipline Workplace.
“A lady in query was detained for questioning and our investigation remains to be ongoing,” Arocho mentioned.
Nobody has been charged at the moment.
