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Feared Security Breach Diverts Flight to JFK

Assuming this winds up being perfectly innocuous, this is still one eagle-eyed flight attendant.

At 1:53 am, American 136 [en route from Los Angeles to London] was diverted while over Newfoundland to New York due to the questionable boarding circumstances of passenger, a federal official told NBC News.

A flight attendant had witnessed the passenger riding on the Los Angeles employee shuttle bus from the employee parking lot to the airport employee entrance earlier then recognized him on the flight after it was en route to London Heathrow, the official said.

American Airlines security later confirmed the identity of the passenger and the unusual process by which he boarded the aircraft.
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At 3:52 a.m., a JFK TSA agent reported that the flight landed without incident and was met by local law enforcement and TSA at the gate.

False alarm or not, that's some fine vigilance.  Let's just hope the passenger wasn't Muslim, or American (and the flight attendant) might have a lawsuit on their hands.

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Feared Security Breach Diverts Flight to JFK

Assuming this winds up being perfectly innocuous, this is still one eagle-eyed flight attendant.

At 1:53 am, American 136 [en route from Los Angeles to London] was diverted while over Newfoundland to New York due to the questionable boarding circumstances of passenger, a federal official told NBC News.

A flight attendant had witnessed the passenger riding on the Los Angeles employee shuttle bus from the employee parking lot to the airport employee entrance earlier then recognized him on the flight after it was en route to London Heathrow, the official said.

American Airlines security later confirmed the identity of the passenger and the unusual process by which he boarded the aircraft.
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At 3:52 a.m., a JFK TSA agent reported that the flight landed without incident and was met by local law enforcement and TSA at the gate.

False alarm or not, that's some fine vigilance.  Let's just hope the passenger wasn't Muslim, or American (and the flight attendant) might have a lawsuit on their hands.