For every door that opens here, an alarm sounds in someone’s security office.
No sooner did a man flying to Traverse City, Michigan, get detained by police for using the bathroom on a plane, but the New York Port Authority had to evacuate an entire terminal at JFK today because some one used the wrong door at an airport lounge.
A man, who remains unidentified, was sitting in a first class lounge for American Airlines and tried to use a door that was meant for airline workers, according to the Associated Press. That set off an alarm — and security officers assumed that an unscreened person had entered a secured area. Our guess the passenger just didn’t believe that little sign on the door that said, “alarm will sound if opened.”
TSA agents then emptied out the terminal and rescreened everyone, though most reports indicate that there were no major problems during the event.
Some flights were delayed because of the rescreening, though the hassle wasn’t nearly as bad as it was a few weeks ago, when a man entered a terminal at Newark airport to kiss his girlfriend goodbye. Security agents closed the terminal for six hours, searching for the man.
A few days later, he was found in Piscataway.
