A week or so ago there were a couple of postings about gang activity associated with Alaska Airlines employees. Today I found this story.

http://www.nbc17.com/travelgetaways/7957572/detail.html

SEATTLE -- Federal agents are trying to determine how a bullet ended up in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines plane.

The discovery was made at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday as the plane was getting ready to depart for San Francisco.

Passengers were taken off Flight 384 so agents could search it, but no gun or other items were found. The passengers were then re-screened before being allowed back on the plane, which eventually took off about 2.5 hours late.

Officials said the airline flies many hunters to Alaska, and bullets occasionally have fallen out of passengers' pockets.

And once a law enforcement official dropped a bullet.

Officials said the airline flies many hunters to Alaska, and bullets occasionally have fallen out of passengers' pockets.

And once a law enforcement official dropped a bullet.
I found this kind of odd. It sounds to me like they are trying to downplay the incident. I worked for the TSA for a while after it started. Bullets show up really well on the X-Ray machines and were probably some of the easiest things to find. I quit in 2003 so things may have changed but when I worked for them no one was allowed to carry bullets onto a plane, not even police officers (unless they were on a special assignment). Notice also that it doesn't give the type or caliber of the bullet.