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Atlanta airport screening supervisor fired

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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> <br> 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&#39;s Terminal F, authorities said. <br> <br> 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> <br> Loy said Tuesday morning on ABC&#39;s ``Good Morning America,&#39;&#39; that a woman screening bags in Atlanta noticed something strange on her screen and alerted a supervisor, who did a hand-check of Keller&#39;s bag and ``simply missed&#39;&#39; the weapon and another clip of ammunition. <br> <br> Keller told an FBI agent that the gun belonged to her husband and she wasn&#39;t aware it was inside the bag. She was charged with boarding an aircraft with a concealed weapon.
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