Customs Checks Causing Concerns

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is tightening security measures for aircraft.
  • Pilot David Perry reported an "unnecessarily frightening" encounter when CBP agents, with guns drawn, met his plane departing Long Beach, California, for Mexico.
  • Perry felt the aggressive security check was unwarranted for himself and his three passengers.
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While we understand that Customs and Border Protection is tightening security for aircraft coming into the U.S., a pilot in Long Beach, Calif. says he was met by CBP agents with guns drawn when he was leaving on a flight to Mexico. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with David Perry about what he says was an unnecessarily frightening experience for him and his three passengers.

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