Eight-year old barred from boarding plane
A third-grader was barred from boarding a plane because his name appeared on the no-fly list; airline stewardess tells boy: “We can’t get you on this plane, you’re a terrorist”
We have heard this story before, have we not: An 8-year-old boy expecting to catch a plane home was denied entry for appearing on a terrorist no-fly list. Bryan Moore was set to catch his first plane trip when he arrived at an airport in Cortez, Colorado to fly home after visiting his sister, Fox News reports. “They almost got me scheduled in and then the lady just bowed her head and said, ‘We can’t get you on this plane, you’re a terrorist,’” Moore said.
The soon-to-be third-grader was red flagged as a threat to national security because his name popped up on the national watch list.
According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), no children are on the terrorist watch list. The TSA said if a child’s name matches up, it is up to the airline to make the necessary changes and let them board the plane. “It’s not really fair that I couldn’t get home because another man in the world was a terrorist,” Moore said. Great Lake Airlines eventually cleared up the situation, but the plane had already left, making him wait another day to come home.
