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Man arrested after sneaking onto tarmac at San Jose airport

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A suspect somehow got onto the tarmac at Mineta San Jose International Airport on Sunday, broke away from workers, and stole a maintenance vehicle before he was ultimately arrested at one of facility’s main passenger terminals, authorities said. (www.sfgate.com) Plus d'info...

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preacher1
preacher1 2
I would wonder what makes this airport a continual target for security breach. Tis good they caught him but why was he there in the first place. Just bad luck or something else?
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paultrubits
paul trubits 1
Medical marijuana?
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preacher1
preacher1 2
??????
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joelwiley
joel wiley 1
CNN 'correspondent' wannabe?
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Moviela
Ric Wernicke 1
There is no tarmac at SJC. Why to journalists continue to use a term that refers to the trade name of a British paving compound? There may be one airport left, in Ireland, that has tarmac. SJC has runways, taxiways, and ramps, none of which are of tarmac.
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preacher1
preacher1 2
Ric, no need to get upset. TARMAC has just worked it's way into the public lingo like DIA in lieu of correct DEN
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 2
I think there was some TARMAC in the beans I ate last night...
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744pnf
744pnf 1
Yup, Denver International Airport (DEN) ... IATA Code, DEN, ICAO Code, KDEN. Dulles is KIAD.
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744pnf
744pnf 1
In addition...In the United States, the word ramp is an older term for an area where pre-flight activities were done; an apron was any area for parking and maintenance. Passenger gates are the main feature of a terminal ramp. The word apron is the ICAO and FAA terminology (the word ramp is not), so the word ramp is not used with this meaning outside the USA, Canada and the Philippines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_apron
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hoffberg
Alan Hoffberg 1
As a GA ramp tenant/pilot based at an international airport which has a TSA presence, the annual training for our credentials includes the concept: We are an extension of the professional staff and security installation -- eyes and ears are all important.

Recently I had the experience of putting this training into action when I observed someone jump the barbed wire topped chain link fence about midnight as I was refueling the aircraft I had flown back from a mission.

Without going into details (great for a novel), it took less than three minutes after my phone call to "operations control" for the arrival of three police departments, an airport authority VP (whom I know) along with several others. The first responders apprehended the "suspect" I verbally kept at bay. (I have a CWP but had no need to use it as my authoritative voice sufficed.)

This incident apparently was the first known of such a breach. It was a terrific exercise of the system the airport authority put into place, and highlighted issues which airport authority planned to address at an ad hoc meeting in the morning.

The point: Users are expected to implement the security/safety procedures to the best of their ability, even if it is no more than contacting the airport authority which is on duty 24/7.
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AlfWilbert
Alfons Wilbert 2
Don’t you just love it when those pompous guys who have to use insignificant letters after their name in a desperate effort to gain some recognition, get it all wrong!!
First of all, Tarmac is not a French construction company in any way! As a matter of fact, having been founded way over a 100 years ago in Wolverhampton near Birmingham, it’s as British as you can get.
Secondly, Tarmac is not a word that requires licensing, it’s a process to stabilise roads build according to the macadam principle.
Thirdly, tar-penetration macadam, known as Tarmac, is a road surfacing material used in many parts of the world, including the United States.
And finally, despite the pompous statement, using the phrase “tarmac” for airport aprons and runways, does NOT automatically “brands” the user to be a “want to-be” or journalist, as every educated persons knows that this term is also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, modern asphalt concrete, and airport aprons and runways.
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