News tagged with 'Airport'

Two women in the United Kingdom refuse a full body scan and are barred from boarding a plane. Monday expect upward of 490 full body scans to be found in U.S. airports to be deployed on a random basis.

A percentage of the population may be more sensitive to the radiation given off of full body scans increasingly used at airports, according to a government report. Meanwhile a privacy rights group finds that TSA did request full-body scanners have the capability to store and send the full body scan images, despite a denial by TSA that images can't be stored or sent.

A breach at Newark's Liberty Airport highlights a security flaw domestically-TSA does not own security cameras, the airlines and airports do. In this case, that resulted in a two-hour delay in reviewing security footage. The man has not been found.

Without a cockpit recorder we may never know what caused a small plane to crash just short of a Butte, Montana runway Sunday afternoon. The plane may have been overloaded and the FAA says it was not certified to carry commercial passengers.  

11 of the nation's busines airports are still not in compliance with runway safety, a Transportation Department report finds.

Seven passengers were injured when an automatic terminal-to-terminal train at Miami International Airport crashed into a building near Concourse E on Friday. This is the first crash on the track in nearly 30 years of operation.