Tomato Juice Causes Airport Delays
By Michelle Fabio
On October 20, American Airlines’ passengers arriving at New York’s LaGuardia Airport were greeted by lines as long as several city blocks—and the reason was an excuse that surely none of them had ever heard before.
That morning, a vendor had spilled tomato juice on an x-ray machine, rendering unusable one of the five units that screen passengers before they are permitted in the gate areas.
The loss of this machine led to excessively long waits for passengers arriving at the terminal.
Many of those waiting in line were incredulous that something so pedestrian as a spill could cripple one of the world’s busiest airports.
The Transportation Safety Administration, though, didn’t seem too worried about future spills, commenting “[t]hat’s the risk you take when you deal with technology.”
Everything was back to normal at the airport by late afternoon, and hopefully no one was crying over spilled tomato juice.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:29 am
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