Whistleblower: Pilot Video Exposing Airport Security Flaws

Whistleblower: Pilot Posts Video Exposing Airport Security Flaws
In An Exclusive Interview with ABC News, Pilot Says TSA's Reaction Was 'Overkill'

The airline pilot who was reprimanded by the TSA for posting videos showing security flaws at a major airport is speaking out exclusively for the first time, saying that it was the "fallacy of the system" that inspired him to take this action.

Late last month a 50-year-old pilot, who asked that his name and the airline he works for not be made public, took a series of videos with his cell phone to show major flaws he says still exist in airport security systems. The videos show how easily ground crews at San Francisco International Airport were able to access secure areas. "As you can see, airport security is kind of a farce. It's only smoke and mirrors so you people believe there is actually something going on here," the pilot says on one video.

The pilot says he has worked for his airline for over a decade, and was also an Army reserve helicopter test pilot. He was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit. But he said he'd had enough, and wanted to do what he could to draw attention to what he says is still a major problem in airport security.

"People don't understand that when they walk through the TSA checkpoints, well, they are getting, now they are getting a groping, but they don't understand that all those people you see outside, the ground personal, all the caterers, all the airline cleaners, they get virtually nothing," the pilot said in an interview with ABC News.

He uses the videos to make his point.

"I wanted to give you an idea of what type of security the ground crews go through, their screening is sliding a card and going through a door. Not screened at all," the pilot says in one clip.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• TSA
• security
• airport
• obama
• checkpoints
• pilots
• ground crews

[hotdrumchick]

@Raymond09871 Who "implemented" the TSA? Prez Obama didn't originate that shizz, did he?

[sensibilita88]

They might deal with him as they are with Assange ... the US is soooo afraid of transparency and good-sense ... the First Amendment lies buried very very deep!

[gunfuego]

get used to tsa, they are going to be nation wide on every interstate eventually if not them it's going to the national guard.......

[WeztheAussie]

TSA is a will breaking exercise, it has nothing to do with security.

[Terri3210]

scripted media..... enjoy your paycheck

[bluesparrowfish]

Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989?????

[Raymond09871]

@hotdrumchick Wrong president? Who's in the white house?

[Kigastumi00]

anyone got a link to the original video?

[hotdrumchick]

@Raymond09871 Dude, wrong President.

[hotdrumchick]

Haha! @ 2:15___,TSA rhetoric, short for "F---k, busted again!"

[Raymond09871]

Shame on you Mr Pilot for exposing the Obama administration's fake security.