TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – Maintenance workers with American Airlines have discovered more than 26 pounds (11.8 kg) of cocaine in a Boeing 757 undergoing routine maintenance at Tulsa International Airport, officials said on Wednesday.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office was called to the airport’s maintenance center after airline employees found packages of a white, powdery substance in the plane on Tuesday night, the sheriff’s office said.
Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were called in and removed 10 square packages, it said.
The packages were positively identified as cocaine and are being held by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.
American Airlines is working with the DEA and federal agencies, which are trying to determine how the cocaine made its way onto the aircraft, a spokesman said.
As of Wednesday morning, no arrests have been made in connection with the discovery.
Yahoo News
TULSA — The FBI is following the trail to who hid drugs in an American Airlines 757 in Tulsa for routine maintenance.
Officials with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Tulsa County Sheriffs Deputies removed 10 square packages of cocaine.
Sources tell Tulsa’s Channel 8 that a mechanic made the discovery, Tuesday afternoon while working on a the plane. Two packages were found in the avionics bay, which is located in the front of the plane underneath the flight deck. Once the discovery was made, the airplane mechanics were ordered off the plane and authorities were called to the scene.
The plane originated in Bogota, Colombia, then traveled to Miami, then did two trips from Boston to Dallas, and then traveled to Tulsa for routine maintenance.
The DEA and the FBI are investigating. Tulsa’s Channel 8 is seeking comment from American Airlines, the DEA, and the FBI.
ABC 8 Tulsa
American Airlines has bug with F/A roster for Christmas time
A malfunction by an American Airlines bidding system program provided at least 200 legacy US Airways flight attendants with December schedules –including holiday schedules — they don’t want to fly, provoking an angry outcry on social media.
American is sufficiently concerned that it is offering incentives including 150% pay for every trip that legacy US Airways flight attendants fly between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31; 300% pay for flight attendants who agree to work the mistakenly assigned trips and pay protection for flight attendants who do not fly them.
Normally, a preferential bidding system allows flight attendants to bid for the flights they want to fly, with the most senior bidders most likely to be awarded the flights they choose.
American and US Airways merged in 2013. Legacy American flight attendants have a different bidding system and are not impacted by the glitch, which some legacy US Airways flight attendants are calling “the glitch that stole Christmas.”
“It’s horrific,” said a legacy US Airways flight attendant who asked not to be named. “We are up in arms. The new system awarded people from all seniorities crazy schedules.
“Some from 1989 and junior are scheduled from {Dec. 15th to Dec. 31st} with no days off or one day off in between. They are also assigning trips to senior people that should have been assigned to junior people and they are making people work days off they would have held.
“The company won’t rerun the bids because they said the vendor can’t guarantee the same thing won’t happen,” the flight attendant said.
While American said about 200 flight attendants were directly impacted, the impact is magnified because other flight attendants lower on the seniority list were awarded trips after more senior flight attendants were assigned trips they did not want.
Forbes
AA-199 suffers cracked windshield
An American Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N393AN performing flight AA-199 from Milan Malpensa (Italy) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute at FL320 about 170nm south of London Heathrow,EN (UK), still in French Airspace, when the crew reported a cracked windshield and initiated a rather normal descent to FL120. During the descent the aircraft turned north to divert to London Heathrow, where the aircraft landed safely 27L about 50 minutes after leaving FL320.
The Aviation Herald
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