by George Warren<\/a><\/p>\nCOLFAX, CA \u2013 WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\u201cMy name is Chris Liu and I\u2019m an airline pilot,\u201d Liu said during an exclusive interview Monday with News10 at his home in Colfax.<\/p>\nLiu\u2019s cell phone video tour of security at San Francisco International Airport led to a team of six federal agents and sheriff\u2019s deputies coming to his home on Dec. 2 to take his handgun and Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) credentials.<\/p>\nLiu\u2019s state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon was also suspended by the Placer County sheriff.<\/p>\nLiu contacted News10 last Tuesday to share his story, but insisted that neither he nor his airline be identified for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\nLiu decided to reveal his identity Monday because he wants to become actively involved in changing what he believes is a major flaw in airport security.<\/p>\n\u201cI just found a disparity between what happens upstairs and what happens downstairs,\u201d Liu explained.<\/p>\nAs Liu pointed out in the video, pilots and flight crew are subjected to real-time TSA security screening while ground crew are not. \u201cUpstairs they\u2019re going through the metal detectors and the X-ray machines, and downstairs they\u2019re swiping a card,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nNews10 established a relationship with the Liu family last July after their rental home in Sacramento\u2019s Oak Park was destroyed by an arsonist. Four firefighters were injured when the house exploded.<\/p>\nAlthough Liu is no longer an FFDO, his flight status with his airline has not changed. Liu\u2019s wife, Sandra, said she worries about repercussions from the publicity, but supported her husband\u2019s decision to go public.<\/p>\n\u201cI think my husband was very courageous. He did what he believed what right,\u201d Sandra said. \u201cIt\u2019s not all about us. It\u2019s about the safety of every American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40,179,29],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
COLFAX, CA \u2013 WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\u201cMy name is Chris Liu and I\u2019m an airline pilot,\u201d Liu said during an exclusive interview Monday with News10 at his home in Colfax.<\/p>\nLiu\u2019s cell phone video tour of security at San Francisco International Airport led to a team of six federal agents and sheriff\u2019s deputies coming to his home on Dec. 2 to take his handgun and Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) credentials.<\/p>\nLiu\u2019s state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon was also suspended by the Placer County sheriff.<\/p>\nLiu contacted News10 last Tuesday to share his story, but insisted that neither he nor his airline be identified for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\nLiu decided to reveal his identity Monday because he wants to become actively involved in changing what he believes is a major flaw in airport security.<\/p>\n\u201cI just found a disparity between what happens upstairs and what happens downstairs,\u201d Liu explained.<\/p>\nAs Liu pointed out in the video, pilots and flight crew are subjected to real-time TSA security screening while ground crew are not. \u201cUpstairs they\u2019re going through the metal detectors and the X-ray machines, and downstairs they\u2019re swiping a card,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nNews10 established a relationship with the Liu family last July after their rental home in Sacramento\u2019s Oak Park was destroyed by an arsonist. Four firefighters were injured when the house exploded.<\/p>\nAlthough Liu is no longer an FFDO, his flight status with his airline has not changed. Liu\u2019s wife, Sandra, said she worries about repercussions from the publicity, but supported her husband\u2019s decision to go public.<\/p>\n\u201cI think my husband was very courageous. He did what he believed what right,\u201d Sandra said. \u201cIt\u2019s not all about us. It\u2019s about the safety of every American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40,179,29],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeswideblind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cMy name is Chris Liu and I\u2019m an airline pilot,\u201d Liu said during an exclusive interview Monday with News10 at his home in Colfax.<\/p>\n
Liu\u2019s cell phone video tour of security at San Francisco International Airport led to a team of six federal agents and sheriff\u2019s deputies coming to his home on Dec. 2 to take his handgun and Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) credentials.<\/p>\n
Liu\u2019s state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon was also suspended by the Placer County sheriff.<\/p>\n
Liu contacted News10 last Tuesday to share his story, but insisted that neither he nor his airline be identified for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\n
Liu decided to reveal his identity Monday because he wants to become actively involved in changing what he believes is a major flaw in airport security.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just found a disparity between what happens upstairs and what happens downstairs,\u201d Liu explained.<\/p>\n
As Liu pointed out in the video, pilots and flight crew are subjected to real-time TSA security screening while ground crew are not. \u201cUpstairs they\u2019re going through the metal detectors and the X-ray machines, and downstairs they\u2019re swiping a card,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
News10 established a relationship with the Liu family last July after their rental home in Sacramento\u2019s Oak Park was destroyed by an arsonist. Four firefighters were injured when the house exploded.<\/p>\n
Although Liu is no longer an FFDO, his flight status with his airline has not changed. Liu\u2019s wife, Sandra, said she worries about repercussions from the publicity, but supported her husband\u2019s decision to go public.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my husband was very courageous. He did what he believed what right,\u201d Sandra said. \u201cIt\u2019s not all about us. It\u2019s about the safety of every American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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