There was a Dallas Love Field security breach Sunday night causing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) guards and Dallas Police to apprehend a man for criminal trespass.
Per eyewitnesses and social media accounts, Dallas Love Field airport was “on lockdown” after an individual ran through a TSA checkpoint.
Dallas Love Field Airport confirmed that an individual did breach the TSA checkpoint. It led to a brief halt of passenger screening, but “there was no impact to flight operations.”
Dallas Love Field Security Breach Adds To Unruly Passenger Wave
According to FAA data, there have been more than 3500 unruly passenger incidents in 2021 as of July 20, 2021.
Passengers at Dallas Love Field posted to Twitter said that the waits were far longer than the fifteen minutes the airport claimed.
This is the second incident at Love Field in just over a week. The first was the arrival of a passenger from Nigeria with monkeypox – a rare condition similar to smallpox.