US aviation workers face criminal checks
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The Transportation Security Administration will take over the job of checking backgrounds of 1.2 million aviation workers, TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe was quoted saying. The agency will also check anyone applying for a job requiring a federal aviation license.
The newspaper said the increased scrutiny comes as the Homeland Security Department cracks down on the possibility of attacks by workers who don’t have to go through security checkpoints to get on a plane or enter sensitive areas.
Last month, a former Comair airline worker was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sneaking guns and marijuana onto a Delta Air Lines plane in Orlando’s airport in March, it said.
The TSA takeover means every licensed aviation worker will be checked against the government’s complete terror watch list.
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