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Woman Carrying Pocketknife Clears Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Security.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Michael Grabell, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 23--A Pennsylvania woman found that she accidentally left a pocketknife in her purse after clearing a security checkpoint Sunday at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, security and airline officials said.

Camille Olive, a former Dallas postal worker, reported the breach, and a ground crew employee for American Airlines gave the knife to Transportation Security Administration screeners.

TSA spokeswoman Andrea McCauley emphasized that there are other procedures to ensure that there would never have been a danger resulting from the knife.

"Airline security isn't just the screening at the checkpoint," Ms. McCauley said. "That's the one that...

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