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...good for his tiny company's $47-million bottom line. And he brandishes an internal poll showing that 85 per cent or more of those surveyed in Arizona said they would feel more comfortable with a trained security person on board. The first Mesa security officer goes down the jetway this week. Mesa may be the first airline to take the step. If Ornstein's right, it won't be the last...
Before Sept. 11, 2001 it was hard enough to pile down the jetway into the belly of a preposterous flying machine, sit patiently in my seat for enormous jet engines to whir to life with deafening power and then peacefully snooze as Bernoulli cheerily combated the force of gravity for hours on end. My mind found itself wandering down well-worn, if paranoiac paths, imagining images of small pebbles and pigeons being sucked into the intake of the engine directly outside my window and my horror at seeing the entire wing of our plane shudder and detach, tumbling end-over...
...from the realm of possibility. Our dark storyteller was given free reign in the world of the conceivable and, predictably, gas masks, Cipro and cell phones began flying off the shelves. And, imagining even more previously unimaginable images, the American public was loath to once again trudge down the jetway onto what they perceived as suicidal cruise missiles. Even now, the airline industry reports business around 40 percent lower than this time last year...
When the plane landed, airport police and medics were waiting at the jetway. Burton was unconscious but still officially alive. He died later at the hospital. The autopsy found bruises and scratches from blunt-force trauma to his face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton...
Instead, the three men muscled past passengers standing in the aisle and, surrounding Aquino, moved him toward the exit jetway. When reporters, who had accompanied Aquino on the journey from Taipei, tried to follow, they were halted at the door by two men in white uniforms. By then Aquino was already outside on the metal platform at the top of the stairs leading to the tarmac. He was surrounded by at least five uniformed men. Reporters tried to open the door to follow, but were rebuffed by the guards, one of whom reached back and shoved a television cameraman, forcing...