As reported in many places

[james_davis_nicoll]

Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago.

But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up.

Comments

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

What I'd want is written confirmation I'm not on a watch list now, even though security officials didn't find I'd done anything wrong. Hopefully it takes more than one moron to decide "Well, we may not have caught them this time, but I'm sure they were up to something," but I wouldn't count on it.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Given that they've kept children on the list for years, I rather doubt that anyone would be dropped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine had trouble flying home for Christmas, because her six-month-old baby was on the no-fly list.

Or, just possibly, somebody with a coincidentally similar name was on the no-fly list, but the TSA officials at the airport seemed to consider this unlikely.