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Man Boards Plane With Pistol By Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 25, 2001; Page A07 A Southwest Airlines passenger flying Tuesday from New Orleans to Phoenix opened his briefcase and realized that he had something he shouldn't have had: a loaded gun. Officials said the man alerted the flight crew and he was not charged with a crime, but the incident illustrates that airport security remains unreliable. "Now, after all the flurry of activity of ramping up the sky marshals . . . [and] ramping up the awareness and intensity of security at the airport checkpoints, you still have a gun getting through," said Rep. James L. Oberstar of Minnesota, the senior Democrat on the House Transportation Committee and sponsor of airport-security legislation. "This just underscores the urgency of moving quickly." House Republicans have delayed a vote on airport-security legislation to build support for their version, which differs from a measure backed by House Democrats and approved by the Senate. House Republican leaders said yesterday that they will bring up the bill next Wednesday. In Tuesday's incident, the passenger -- a 68-year-old man whom authorities declined to identify -- put his briefcase through a security checkpoint X-ray machine at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport without setting off alarms. Midway to Phoenix, the man opened the briefcase to look for something and found the gun, an old derringer that had been given to him by his father, said Ed Hall, spokesman for the FBI in Phoenix. The man had thought the gun was lost and did not realize it was in his briefcase, Hall said. When he saw it, the man summoned a flight attendant and said, "I've got a situation here. I don't know what to do. I know what I did was wrong," according to Hall. The flight attendant locked the briefcase in the cockpit with the captain, who radioed ahead and alerted officials at the Phoenix airport. FBI agents met the man when the plane landed. They interviewed him, checked his background for any criminal record and verified his story with his brother, who was traveling with him, Hall said. Satisfied that the man had made an honest mistake, the agents allowed him to buy a lockbox at the airport, put the gun in it and check it into the cargo hold for a flight to his destination, San Diego, Hall said. A spokeswoman for Southwest Airlines, which contracts with International Total Services Inc. for security at the New Orleans airport concourse, said an initial investigation put the blame on a single employee for missing the gun as it went through the checkpoint. ITS fired that employee, said Beth Harbin, the Southwest spokeswoman. "I feel pretty satisfied they've taken care of it to our needs," Harbin said. No one from ITS, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 13, returned a phone call seeking comment. Federal Aviation Administration investigators are still looking into the incident, as are authorities from the New Orleans airport, the airline and local law enforcement, FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said. It was not the first such case since terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. At Atlanta's Hartfield Airport late last month, a 63-year-old man made it through a checkpoint with a .22-caliber pistol in his pocket. He realized his error before boarding and notified Delta Air Lines officials, who later blamed a faulty metal detector for letting the weapon get through. The FAA inspector general's office said last week that it arrested a man after he managed to carry a knife in his shoe through a metal detector at Dulles International Airport without setting it off. The Senate has voted unanimously in favor of legislation that would set up a government workforce of airport security screeners, an approached favored by House Democrats. But House Republicans have backed a different bill, introduced by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), that would give the president the option of hiring either private contractors or government employees to screen baggage. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday that President Bush will make a "strong push" for the Young bill. Staff writers Juliet Eilperin and Dana Milbank contributed to this report. © 2001 The Washington Post Company ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! 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