Cancer patient turned away by airline

Airport security screeners refused to let a cancer patient board a flight home to Denver because they said she no longer resembled her identification photos.

Cancer patient turned away by airline
Fri, 23 Apr, 2004 - 11:04

Airport security screeners refused to let a cancer patient board a flight home to Denver because they said she no longer resembled her identification photos.

Athena LaPera, 35, eventually flew out of Orlando International Airport on a Frontier Airlines flight, two days after she was turned away by security screeners.

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