Pointing Fingers: Neither TSA Nor JetBlue Claim Responsibility for 18-Month-Old on No-Fly List Mishap
- Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:33pm by
Liz Klimas
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Riyanna was allegedly on the TSA's no-fly list, which the administration has denied. (Photo: Screenshot via WPBF report)
The story that has been making headlines since yesterday evening and throughout this morning is that of a New Jersey family who was kicked off its JetBlue flight in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., because their 18-month-old Riyanna was allegedly on the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list.
(Related: FlyRights app allows for instant reporting of profiling by TSA before you lose motivation)
The TSA has issued a statement saying this is not the case, leaving the airline scrambling to investigate how the incident occurred and the parents, who wished to remain unnamed, wanting answers as they feel “humiliated” and racially targeted after what happened.
WPBF-TV, a local news station in West Palm Beach, reports the details of the incident:
[Riyanna] and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight [Tuesday night] when an airline employee approached them and asked them to get off the plane, saying representatives from the [TSA] wanted to speak to them.
“And I said, ‘For what?’” Riyanna’s mother told only WPBF 25 News on Wednesday. “And he said, ‘Well, it’s not you or your husband. Your daughter was flagged as no fly.’ I said, ‘Excuse me?’”
Riyanna’s father was flabbergasted.
“It’s absurd,” he said. “It made no sense. Why would an 18-month-old child be on a no-fly list?”
Watch this WSVN report:
It’s an incident that JetBlue has said it is looking into in cooperation with the TSA, whereas TSA has said it was an error on JetBlue’s part. The New York Daily News reports a JetBlue representative issuing this statement:
“There are layers of security checkpoints in place — from booking a flight to checking-in, clearing security and boarding an aircraft — that are enforced by the airline in collaboration with airport authorities and the Transportation Security Administration to ensure all customers enjoy a safe and secure travel experience,” the airline said.
The New York Daily News goes on note that the TSA has denied Riyanna was ever on the no-fly list. WPBF reports TSA considering “this is an airline issue” and it is therefore not investigating. It also told WPBF that since the family, including Riyanna, were issued boarding passes it further shows they were cleared by TSA and not on the restricted list.
Riyanna’s parents believe they were targeted because they are of Middle Eastern descent, even though both were born and raised in New Jersey. Riyanna’s father told WPBF they were “put on display like a circus act because my wife wears a hijab.”
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Comments (44)
thekuligs
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:25pmJeez, she probably just shared a name with someone on the no fly list. So even though they were looking for an adult, someone panicked. Simple answers, simple solutions. Don’t name your kid after a terrorist.
Report Post »bigben357mag
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:40pmHow about common sense? When the TSA idiot, sees the person in question is 18 freaking months old, they just write it off as not the person they are looking for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUH!!
Report Post »Voice1percent
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:50pmOoh oooh oooh!! I know, I know, its its its BUSH’S fault! Yeah right!
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 7:26pmUm actually… Nevermind, it’s hopeless.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:38pmWhy are we all surprised when the TSA will not take any responsibility for being clueless , when the POTUS will not take any for anything.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:33pmDidn’t obumbler say the war on terror was over? It is time to disband the Tsa, right?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 7:27pmIt should never have been formed in the first place.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 7:35pmIt’s over because he sold us out.
Report Post »mbean
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:20pmSo the more you read, the more its not anything to do with the kid and the TSA, it was about a Hijab.
Wear a Hijab get screened, sound OK to me. The Islamic men dress as women to carry out terrorist attacks.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:12pmThe TSA pervs flagged her the first time through because they thought she looked sexy and they wanted another go at her.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:02pmCan you still NOT be touched by the TSA if you wear that outfit? Might have to get me one… haha
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:20pmOnce again I have 2 shave my head so I don’t pull out my hair. Just started 2 grow out,.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:55pmJust look at that obvious criminal. Can’t you see the hatred in her eyes. She is surely concealing an AK47 under her dress and will mow down everyone on the plane.
We must be ever vigilant and protect ourselves against cute little girls, they are known for stealing your heart and making you buy toys and brag to your friends about her accomplishments (at least thats the way my great gran daughter affects me).
Time for Pistole and Fat Janet too fess up, they screwed up again.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:52pmFor the last 50 years had the policy been to keep the “Middle Eastern descent” people in the Middle East, America and Europe wouldn’t have many of the problems they have today.
Report Post »rosie1000
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:48pmLook past the obvious folks. It wasn’t the child, it was the hijab and they are afraid to profile, even though they need to.
Report Post »the_united_states_of_britain
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:36pmi suggest this happened because you’ve allowed your government to dictate your lives.
you have to put up with rape to go on holiday. sad times in the once idolised us of a.
its no coincidence israeli airports are the safest. its not because every man woman and child gets a finger shoved up them every time they visit. its solely due to profiling. they leave the white kids alone. and finger the burka clad arabs instead.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:33pmImagine a limey telling American’s that their Gov runs their lives. That’s ironic, as yours is a total nanny state.
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:35pmABOLISH ALL AMERICA REPRESENTS ASAP by Barack Obama & Co.
1. Why Biden was allowed VP?
“How I Learned to Love the New World Order”
— Article by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in Tthe Wall Street Journal (April 1992)
2. The untold agenda of the NWO
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism and religious dogmas …
We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers and others with vested interests in controlling us.
The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives … for charting the changes of human behavior. ”
DIRECTOR, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Brock Chisolm
3. Bye bye America -
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
Strobe Talbot, Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.
Great information – study the knowledge – http://www.illuminati-news.com/quotes.htm
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Hickory
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:28pmMore and more like Hitler every day.
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:56pmprobably was suppose to be for the parents…
Report Post »merchantsailor
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:22pmMy question is how can the government restrict travel? the airlines can just like an eatery or bar but the government? By putting your name on a “list” you can no longer travel from point A to point B in your “pursuit of happiness”, job, family vacation. I mean just like that!! no explanation no nothing. The clown who wrote this law (I believe he is a sitting repuke) and co-sponsors should be fired and taken to the wood shed. Sooooo whats next no train list, no interstate drive list, and no bus ride list.. Just like that your travel is restricted in a “free nation”. Wonderful just wonderful. It will take more than this 2012 election to change anything.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:20pmHere comes the mooselimb lawsuit. He say the wife wears a hijab and they are of middle east decent. This is going to cost someone some cash.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:13pm“It’s absurd,” he said. “It made no sense. Why would an 18-month-old child be on a no-fly list?”
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That seems to be par for the course with our government these days.
moussiagilda
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:09pmHowever, trying to find decent stories on this website is still hell.
Don‘t you be holdin’ back my love, don‘t you be holdin’ back…
Shorty got a mean walk, mean shoe game…
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:08pmShe does look like a terrorist…to the ants beneath her feet.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:07pmI feel like I have come up from hell and returned to the actual world, this heaven of a world. Last Sunday — it probably wasn’t actual Sunday — I was at Holy Redeemer in a room choked with incense surrounded by zombies. Today, I feel like I woke up at last, into the post-apocolyptic, ever-better world.
Is there still Emancipation Hall in the Capitol in DC? Or did I imagine it?
Is there any hellishness in my conciousness? No. Especially today.
Surrounded by sunshine.
Ready to quit being obsessed with anyone who wants me to be tarred, feathered, and rode out of town on a rail.
What I saw in DC was real. Heaven is real. Hell isn’t.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:07pmAnother terrorist stopped before their diaper explodes and brings down a plane.
Report Post »This kind of ******-b**b has been showing up in a lot of diapers lately prompting a diaper alert at TSA.
Statement by agents say it smells and is a messy situation but that air travel is safer now that we are aware of this latest tactic by the baby terrorist. Job well done!
makeemstop
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:03pmShe was obviously a fussy flyer in the past. I think I just complimented the TSA. Sorry folks!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:14pmAfter TSA Grouping of her mother and her is the little girl still a virgin?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:00pmHey, remember when all of this kicked off, Teddy Kennedy was even on the No Fly list briefly. The only thing that I ever liked about TK was what National Lampoon did to him in their Encyclopedia Of Humor did to him in the mid “70s. But, it had to be some jerk who maliciously added his name. It’s just more of the same old same old.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:59pmHey, she had 18 months of terrorist training…..grab her!
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:42pmThe Social Security Number being used by Barack Obama does not pass a check with E-Verify, the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not prospective employees have the required authorization to work legally in the United States’……….
…………………………………………..and this kid is a threat???
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:40pmwell it is about time that other people are treated the same as so called white american children, i find it racial that only white elderly & white children have been herassed by system maybe something will be done they said nothing about their child be ing manhandled or examine all over their body
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:39pmOne more reason of selective terrorization and intimidation by the TSA; get rid of them now.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:03pmHow do you propose we get rid of them?
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