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A PILOT furious at being searched before flying dropped his pants and exposed himself to security staff, then raged: “Do you want to search this?”
His flight had to be cancelled as police were called and the pilot was quizzed — but not arrested.
Thirty-seven passengers on the Swiss International Airlines flight from London City Airport were delayed for two hours yesterday as the row erupted.
A source said: “The pilot was asked to take off his shoes and belt like everyone — but completely lost the plot.
“He pulled down his trousers and pants to completely expose himself, then turned to the security guard and asked angrily, ‘Do you want to search this?’”
The incident happened at the East London terminal’s downstairs security gate, which is not used by the public.
The source said: “All pilots have to go through these procedures so no one can understand why he reacted the way he did. Perhaps he was having a bad day.”
An airport spokeswoman said staff followed Government guidelines on searching pilots. The passengers caught the next flight.
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Hedley wrote:Actually, it's hard to argue that Airport Security doesn't work.
Since 9/11, not one pilot has hijacked his own aircraft with his tweezers.
Hedley wrote:Actually, it's hard to argue that Airport Security
doesn't work. Since 9/11, not one pilot has
hijacked his own aircraft with his tweezers.
I may use that in my sig, if thats ok with you sir.
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Hedley wrote:Actually, it's hard to argue that Airport Security doesn't work.
Since 9/11, not one pilot has hijacked his own aircraft with his tweezers.
Hedley wrote:Actually, it's hard to argue that Airport Security
doesn't work. Since 9/11, not one pilot has
hijacked his own aircraft with his tweezers.
Very true. You just can't argue with statistics.
However there has been one case where a pilot deliberately crashed his airplane in the Atlantic (although the NTSB refuses to say so). I'm thinking they should take our airplanes away from us as well as the tweezers.
That was hilarious.... "please excuse my wand, while it slides up inside ya" Bahahaha.
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