Came across this on anet, haven't been able to find more. US Airways F/A allegedly tried to bring a disassembled gun, with ammo, on board. Very strange.
News article (in Italian)
http://www.ilmessagg...ie/296049.shtml
Less than perfect Google translation:
Fiumicino - He had a gun in his luggage. This is a hostess American about 60 years old was arrested yesterday by agents of the Border Police at the airport of Fiumicino. The hostess on duty yesterday morning on a U.S. Airways flight from Rome to Charlotte, was found in possession of a revolver, model 'Sig Sauer' .40-caliber, disassembled and placed inside the hand luggage in which were also scattered about forty hits, 5 of which have already exploded.One particular this specific investigation that has already activated also by agents of the Border Police coordinated by the leader of the V Zone Antonio Del Greek, because the hostess stayed in Rome in the days when the capital there has been a series of criminal offenses . the discovery of the weapon, according to what has been learned, it has come during the security checks that are submitted crews. Just before you undergo the inspections of the ritual, the woman, of which you know the initials JJ, was seen making strange movements inside his hand luggage. This has therefore suspicious of all staff assigned to security checks, which have thus been able to discover the gun 'Sig Sauer' caliber 40, found disassembled, and the forty hits, 5 of which have already exploded, scattered inside the trolley. The questions of the investigators, the hostess replied that the weapon had brought to Rome from the United States where, according to his story, the controls on crews departing are made to sample. Arrested carry a weapon abusive, the 'hostess was then transferred to the prison in Civitavecchia. It will be at this point just the Prosecutor's Office of Civitavecchia, which opened an investigation, to try to shed some light on the matter and the reasons for which the woman had a gun with him, though removed. To clarify then, through appropriate examinations, when those shots were fired.
News article (in Italian)
http://www.ilmessagg...ie/296049.shtml
Less than perfect Google translation:
Fiumicino - He had a gun in his luggage. This is a hostess American about 60 years old was arrested yesterday by agents of the Border Police at the airport of Fiumicino. The hostess on duty yesterday morning on a U.S. Airways flight from Rome to Charlotte, was found in possession of a revolver, model 'Sig Sauer' .40-caliber, disassembled and placed inside the hand luggage in which were also scattered about forty hits, 5 of which have already exploded.One particular this specific investigation that has already activated also by agents of the Border Police coordinated by the leader of the V Zone Antonio Del Greek, because the hostess stayed in Rome in the days when the capital there has been a series of criminal offenses . the discovery of the weapon, according to what has been learned, it has come during the security checks that are submitted crews. Just before you undergo the inspections of the ritual, the woman, of which you know the initials JJ, was seen making strange movements inside his hand luggage. This has therefore suspicious of all staff assigned to security checks, which have thus been able to discover the gun 'Sig Sauer' caliber 40, found disassembled, and the forty hits, 5 of which have already exploded, scattered inside the trolley. The questions of the investigators, the hostess replied that the weapon had brought to Rome from the United States where, according to his story, the controls on crews departing are made to sample. Arrested carry a weapon abusive, the 'hostess was then transferred to the prison in Civitavecchia. It will be at this point just the Prosecutor's Office of Civitavecchia, which opened an investigation, to try to shed some light on the matter and the reasons for which the woman had a gun with him, though removed. To clarify then, through appropriate examinations, when those shots were fired.
