The incident began when the pilots for American Trans Air Flight 205 were going through the passenger screening area at La Guardia Airport in New York, officials said. The flight, with 152 passengers, was scheduled to depart at 6:40 p.m. for San Francisco with a stopover at Midway Airport.
"At one checkpoint, a screener thought he smelled alcohol," said Lisa Jacobson Brown, a spokeswoman for the Indianapolis-based airline. "But no one else did."
The screener's supervisor was called and also did not smell alcohol, Brown said.
So why was the screener not breathalysed. Surely they would have cast suspicion on themselves, if the supervisor did not smell alcohol. ?
