PHILADELPHIA - Federal officials say an airport screening supervisor in Atlanta was fired because he missed a loaded gun during a hand-check of a bag belonging to a woman charged with carrying the weapon into a terminal at Philadelphia International Airport. <br>
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Nancy Keller of Huntersville, North Carolina was detained Sunday morning after she put a carry-on bag containing a .357-caliber handgun through an X-ray machine at the airport's Terminal F, authorities said. <br>
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The head of the Transportation Security Administration, retired Coast Guard Adm. James Loy, says the 37-year-old old Keller got the weapon past security screeners in Atlanta. <br>
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Loy said Tuesday morning on ABC's ``Good Morning America,'' that a woman screening bags in Atlanta noticed something strange on her screen and alerted a supervisor, who did a hand-check of Keller's bag and ``simply missed'' the weapon and another clip of ammunition. <br>
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Keller told an FBI agent that the gun belonged to her husband and she wasn't aware it was inside the bag. She was charged with boarding an aircraft with a concealed weapon.