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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Robert Roaldi on October 12, 2021, 06:35:27 am

Title: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: Robert Roaldi on October 12, 2021, 06:35:27 am: Be careful with those vintage cameras, https://www.ibtimes.com/bomb-scare-forced-nyc-flights-emergency-landing-was-just-ridiculous-error-3313665 (https://www.ibtimes.com/bomb-scare-forced-nyc-flights-emergency-landing-was-just-ridiculous-error-3313665).

And in this case, solving a math problem was deemed risky, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/professor-flight-delay-terrorism-equation-american-airlines (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/professor-flight-delay-terrorism-equation-american-airlines).
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2021, 07:23:19 am: Quote from: Robert Roaldi on October 12, 2021, 06:35:27 am
Be careful with those vintage cameras, https://www.ibtimes.com/bomb-scare-forced-nyc-flights-emergency-landing-was-just-ridiculous-error-3313665 (https://www.ibtimes.com/bomb-scare-forced-nyc-flights-emergency-landing-was-just-ridiculous-error-3313665).

Question: why wasn't Karen arrested?

This was a much more dangerous situation:
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: LesPalenik on October 12, 2021, 09:34:10 am: Quite a few years ago, when I was still shooting 120 film, one dumb but very conscientious security guard at San Francisco airport forced me to rip open the sealed protective aluminum foils on the expensive unused Fuji Velvia film rolls. Obviously, the well meaning idiot had never seen before a small bomb or large format films.
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 12, 2021, 05:01:31 pm: Note to self: Don't take the Deardorff on an airplane.
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: rabanito on October 12, 2021, 06:09:09 pm: Quote from: LesPalenik on October 12, 2021, 09:34:10 am
Quite a few years ago, when I was still shooting 120 film, one dumb but very conscientious security guard at San Francisco airport forced me to rip open the sealed protective aluminum foils on the expensive unused Fuji Velvia film rolls. Obviously, the well meaning idiot had never seen before a small bomb or large format films.
Better than x-raying them I guess :-)
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: Smoothjazz on October 12, 2021, 07:59:01 pm: Does anyone know what kind of camera it was?
Just curious....
Title: Re: Passenger thought vintage camera was a bomb, plane forced to land.
Post by: Robert Roaldi on October 15, 2021, 10:43:33 am: A friend sent me a source for similar nonsense, https://www.schneier.com/tag/war-on-the-unexpected/ (https://www.schneier.com/tag/war-on-the-unexpected/).