<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1590290, October 2018

Flight attendant reported a security concern with a passenger filming a catering operation and not deleting the video.

Attributes
ACN	1590290
Time
Date	201810
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Experience	Flight Attendant Airline Total 29 Flight Attendant Total 29 Flight Attendant Type 80
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Security Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Passenger Misconduct

Narrative:

Noticed passenger doing cellular recordings of catering truck and personnel. Flight attendants involved instructed passenger to delete it. Passenger admits he had already downloaded recordings to a public domain refusing to stop recordings. I immediately reported 'suspicious behavioral' situation to the captain and requested permission to get released from the flight due to the fact I didn't feel safe with this passenger onboard. Gate agents also got involved in the incident. Eventually passenger was removed from flight. The company provided the passenger with hotel and flight accommodations on a later flight. I proceeded to report incident to [airline company] security and tsa. Not only he was recording the catering process but to me he looked very suspicious. My work attendance got affected with a missed trip for leaving the flight to report situation.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight attendant reported a security concern with a passenger filming a catering operation and not deleting the video.

Narrative: Noticed passenger doing cellular recordings of catering truck and personnel. Flight Attendants involved instructed passenger to delete it. Passenger admits he had already downloaded recordings to a public domain refusing to stop recordings. I immediately reported 'Suspicious Behavioral' situation to the Captain and requested permission to get released from the flight due to the fact I didn't feel safe with this passenger onboard. Gate Agents also got involved in the incident. Eventually passenger was removed from flight. The company provided the passenger with hotel and flight accommodations on a later flight. I proceeded to report incident to [Airline Company] Security and TSA. Not only he was recording the catering process but to me he looked very suspicious. My work attendance got affected with a missed trip for leaving the flight to report situation.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.