AMERICAN GROUNDS 33 PLANES OUT OF ST.LOUIS
The FAA said it found more problems with American Airlines' baggage screening process at the St. Louis airport. The airline yesterday had to ground 33 planes as a result, AP reports. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has nothing about yesterday's snafu, but has an archived story about a similar incident at the same airport last week.

American doesn't have anything about the incident on its site, but it has posted a Jan. 7 news release about the deadline to improve baggage checks by Jan. 18. In explaining why they won't be commenting on the status of their procedures, they use this line: "It should be obvious to everyone that a public discussion of aviation security measures is not consistent with successful security processes."
- posted by Amy @ 1/10/2002 09:46:00 AM