These lists are different than the federal no-fly list maintained by the FBI. This has caused viewers to send WFAA some no-fly list questions. We answer them here.

These lists are different than the federal no-fly list maintained by the FBI. This has caused viewers to send WFAA some no-fly list questions. We answer them here.

The request for a national no-fly list comes after the Federal Aviation Administration received nearly 6,0000 unruly passenger reports in 2021, with about 4,300 of those relating to mask requirements.

The federal no-fly list was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, along with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is an agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland ...

And they are not shy about creating their own no-fly list, sometimes on the fly. Consider the recent Frontier Airlines flight in which passengers voted to remove an unruly passenger.

As one response to our lawsuit, the government began to allow Americans to fly home on a “one-time waiver,” with stringent security precautions. Separately, the government made two basic arguments in ...

The argument for a no-fly list is that the government has identified a group of people who are such a threat that, even after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening, they cannot be ...

The no-fly list is a small subset of individuals in Terrorist Screening Database, more commonly known as “the watchlist,” which the FBI says “are known to be or reasonably suspected of being ...

The classified no-fly list was adopted after the hijacked-plane attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an effort to prevent suspected terrorists from getting on aircraft or coming to the United States.

Visit the No-Fly Fiasco special section. "I'm a terrorist, apparently," said Thompson, an ATM technician. "It's a little disconcerting." He is just one of 20 passengers named John Thompson in ...

According to leaked documents obtained by The Intercept, more than 47,000 people were on America’s no-fly list as of August 2013. That number reportedly includes 800 Americans, many of whom don ...