Oct 20, 2010

Pilot: TSA doesn’t make travel safer - refuses body scan

From a CBS/AP news report:

A Tennessee pilot who says he’s tired of being manhandled by security agents is waiting to see if he will lose his job because he refused a full body scan.

ExpressJet Airlines first officer Michael Roberts was chosen for the X-ray scan Friday at Memphis International Airport. The Houston-based pilot says he also refused a pat-down and went home.

The 35-year-old pilot says he wants to go to work and not be “harassed or molested without cause,” and called TSA a “make-work” program that doesn’t make travel safer.

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