Re: Don't spend too much time in the bathroom...

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

The answer is obvious. Airplane bathroom doors should automatically open
after 10 minutes and an alarm should sound.

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 7:13 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org; Alex Eckelberry
Subject: Re: [funsec] Don't spend too much time in the bathroom...

The story mentioned in Flight 253 thread (pointing to NYDailyNews
article) says that
"Passengers told investigators that Abdulmutallab spent about 20 minutes
in the bathroom and covered himself with a blanket when he sat down"

Only 20 minutes... The second Nigerian man spent an hour.
Now TSA has to wake up is ten minutes or more too long...

Juha-Matti

Alex Eckelberry [AlexE () sunbelt-software com] kirjoitti: 
> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091228/D9CS0P2G0.html
>
>
> ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same
Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas
Day, but the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger - just an ill
traveler who spent too much time in the bathroom.
> Coming so soon after a Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a
plane, authorities quickly responded to an emergency call from the crew
on Flight 253 from Amsterdam. Some of the 256 passengers were rattled
while others apparently weren't aware of the incident.
> Tim Jeronimus, 13, said he was "a bit nervous" when officers entered,
and his 11-year-old sister, Emma, said she was scared.
> Their mother, Jane Jeronimus, said the captain told passengers that no
arrival gates were available.
> "I said to my husband, 'That's not true,'" she later recalled inside
the terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Airport police and border
officers then entered the cabin to remove the man from the plane.
> Passengers were safely evacuated, and luggage was lined up on the
ground for inspection by bomb-sniffing dogs.
> The passenger, also a Nigerian, was a businessman who was sick and
posed no security threat, said two law enforcement officials who spoke
on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss
the incident.
> The traveler in question had "spent a lengthy time in the restroom,"
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.
> "This raised concerns so an alert was raised. ... The investigation
shows that this was a non-serious incident and all is clear at this
point," she said.
> The passenger was released after questioning, Berchtold said.
>
> The man used the bathroom several times during the trip and refused to
come out as the plane was preparing to land, said Lester Robinson, head
of the Wayne County Airport Authority.
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