An Arizona couple has been caught with over a thousand pieces of luggage stolen from the carousels of the Phoenix airport. Kevin King and Stacy Legg-King are accused of walking into the baggage claim area and brazenly taking a random bag before walking straight out to their parked car. As there are no claim check security measures at the airport, they were able to get away with this over a thousand times. Some of the stolen items include: cameras, laptops, video equipment, clothing, medical devices, video games, baseball card and stamp collections and passports. Passports??? The people who packed their passports in their checked luggage deserved to have it stolen.
Apparently, the couple often held yard sales and their neighbours scored some great deals.
Paris Charles de Gaulle, Moscow Sheremetyevo, and London Heathrow are the worlds worst airports, according to the current survey at sleepinginairports.com. In the annual air traveller’s report of the Business Week Magazine, the Prague Franz Kafka International Airport has now been announced to be the World’s Most Alienating Airport. This is reported by the Onion News Network, maybe a critical additional information here.
The Franz Kafka International annoys travellers with 32.2 hours average flight delay, extremely long corridors leading to dead ends, and an unusually extensive security interview in which the honesty and identity of travellers is thoroughly tested. Furthermore, travellers complain about “everyone keeps calling me S.”. In a statement, airport officials dismiss the criticism. See the full story here:
Domestic passengers got the shock of their lives this week as bikies brazenly attacked a rival gang at an arrivals area.
More than 50 passengers arriving in Sydney on Sunday afternoon witnessed the brawl as the Hells Angels and Comanchero gangs traded fists. One man was hit repeatedly over the head with a metal bollard. Such was the speed of the violence that police and security forces were powerless to stop the melee.
One gang member was killed in the fight. Detectives say it was a carefully planned ambush on the rival gang, who were arriving from Adelaide, and had come to Sydney as reinforcements in a current gang stoush.
Four men were arrested shortly after the attack. And with security CCTV cameras capturing it from every angle, police are confident of rounding up the others involved. It’s believed this is the first such brawl ever witnessed in Sydney Airport.
A few weeks ago I posted an entry that included of a cool photo of a plane taking off at the St. Maarten airport. The plane looked dangerously close to the beach and this got me thinking about other possibly wild, scary and slightly dangerous runways. Quito, Ecuador has been a nailbiter for me at times, but that is nothing compared to others out there. Here are just a few from many interesting runways:
1. St. Maarten
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Widebody jetliners fly over popular Maho Beach barely skimming a perimeter fence. The beach has become a tourist attraction with spectators stopping by just for the experience of having a jet fly over their heads or being blown off the beach into the ocean by departing flights. Check out the video here Read more…
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