SF News Guy Goes Nuts Aboard SFO-Bound Flight, Gets Taken Down By Retired San Mateo Cop A 28-year-old Yemeni man named Rageit (or Rageh?) Almurisi was aboard an American Airlines flight from Chicago to SFO when he walked briskly out of coach, through first class, and began
SF News Harvard Attorney Sentenced for SFO Meltdown Remember the former LA City Attorney who went berserk on a Peet's kiosk and airport police on Christmas Eve? She was sentenced today. "Angela West, 50, a Harvard Law School
SF News Hilarious Laser Pranks Not So Funny At Bay Area Airports According to the Chronicle, "Reports of lasers being shined at aircraft nearly doubled last year across the country, with the Bay Area being among the worst regions when it comes to the
SF News Former LA Deputy City Attorney Goes Berzerk On Peet's Kiosk, Police Angela West, a former LA City Attorney, reportedly went on a bit of a rampage during the holiday season at San Francisco International Airport. And how. Look, we get it: Christmas and SFO
SF News SFO-Based Pilot Suspended From Anti-Terror Program After Posting YouTube Videos Criticizing Security An unnamed pilot based at SFO and residing in Sacramento is catching heat from some camera-phone videos he posted to YouTube showing lax security at the airport. The pilot was part of
SF News Heading Northeast Out of SFO? Check Flight Status Beforehand. Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon. Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling
misc Day Around the Bay * Aubrey Huff will be sticking around for 2 more years. [McCovey Chronicles] * Newsflash: Waiting at the DMV always sucks, but it sucks twice as much in San Francisco. [CBS] * US Conference of Mayors
SF News SFO Emergency Landing After Qantas 747 Engine Blows Up A plane heading to Australia "was forced to make an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday after an engine exploded in flight over the Pacific," reports KTVU. (In
SF News <s>Bomb</s> Hijack Threat Grounds Plane at SFO An American Airlines flight has been grounded at SFO after a bomb threat. According to the Transportation Security Administration, reports CBS 5, "the threat was made against American Airlines Flight No. 24
SF News Emergency Landing at SFO After Drunk Passenger Sets Napkin On Fire A reader, who asked to remain anonymous, writes to SFist about a harrowing (albeit it tiny) blaze aboard a flight, prompting an emergency landing at SFO on Sunday. A good friend was flying
SF News Carsonist Comes to SFO Yes, yes, this very likely isn't the same carsonist who kept us on our toes for much of last year (or this recent string of 12 arsons in Berkeley), but just
SF News Fog Delays SFO Flights Because we're always cheated out of a proper summer -- for whatever reason, this year's summer chill seems particularly glacial -- that means low fog. And what does low fog mean?
SF News Scene from a Virgin Launch at SFO Today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Virgin Overlord Sir Richard Branson, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom celebrated the launch of Virgin America’s first international flight to exotic Toronto, Canada. Yay, money!
SF News Hong Kong Resident Accused of Making Bomb Threat at SFO Yushing Lui, a marketing director at Silicon Valley technology company Nvidia, is accused of making a bomb threat on an airplane at SFO. According to KTVU, Lui "allegedly told a flight attendant
SF News San Francisco Airport To Offer Free Wifi Travelers at San Francisco International Airport could soon benefit from free wifi access across all airport terminals. Currently those trying to get online need to pay $7.99. But a partnership between SFO
SF News Tuberculosis-Infected Man On 'Do Not Board' List Flies Into SFO Over the weekend, a man on the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's "do not board" list, with a steaming case of tuberculosis, managed to fly from Philadelphia to
SF News So, Just How Shitty Was Your Air Travel Experience This Weekend? The big news this post-Xmas weekend was, of course, that little punk who boarded the plane in Nigeria and tried to blow up that Northwest/Delta flight landing in Detroit on Friday.
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash,
SF News Litigious Lawyer Sues SFO For Causing His Divorce Local kook Stanley Hilton is suing San Francisco International Airport for $15 million for creating noise and smog that led to his divorce. He's also suing the real estate agent for
SF News Get Flu Shot, Get on Plane We don't know the larger wisdom behind this effort, but several flu shot kiosks have been set up at SFO dispensing H1N1 vaccinations to those 18 and older for the reasonable
SF News Angry Customer Arrested at SFO for Bomb Threat A frustrated customer at the Philippine Airlines ticket counter at SFO's International Terminal, when told he was going to have to pay for a full round-trip fare, became so incensed
SF News SFO Finally Installs Carbon Offset Kiosks by Chris Jones So, the new carbon offset kiosks at SFO, first reported here last December, have finally been installed at the Airport. The kiosks, operated by local start up, 3Degrees can be
SF News Baggage Handlers Convicted in SFO Theft Ring Back in September, a certain baggage handler by the name of John Emil Victoria, age 21, fucked with the wrong man's luggage. A retired San Francisco police officer checked his custom-
