Airline Pilot Confidential: The Teddy Bear Incident. | JetHead's Blog: Less than fifteen minutes till push. Can you maybe say you didn’t see any of this? But you did.
“What do you need?” you ask the older, maybe sixteen-year-old sister.
She puts the cell phone down for a second, plaintive. “She left her backpack at security.”
Sigh. The agent is looking at you pointedly, his eyes saying we need to board now and shut the aircraft door. But from the tears in the young girl’s eyes, you pretty much guess what’s in the backpack. I consider taking the youngster back through security–but then think better of it.