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Chile has fired the security chief of the country's main airport after a robbery of more than $10 million. 

The number of passengers who tried, knowingly or not, to bring guns onto planes in their carry-on luggage nearly doubled in the past six years – from 976 in 2009 to 1,813 in the U.S. last year, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

The Department of Transportation wants to formally ban in-flight phone calls. 

Two large airline trade groups are suing the TSA over how it collects higher federal security fees on airline tickets.

 Following the lead of other major airports throughout Europe, Brussels Airport in Zaventem plans to deploy facial recognition scanners next year. 

International aviation officials agreed to form a task force aimed at better coordinating government security information to prevent another airliner from getting shot down like Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The Transportation Security Administration is willing to pay to show them how to make the airport security lines less frustrating.

 Two kayakers have been cited for trespassing after breaching a security perimeter at New York's Kennedy Airport. 

According to Greg DeCanio, the Chief of Law Enforcement at LIMA, the new video management system provides airport security personnel with “the ability to access video at our computers, making us more efficient and letting us monitor activity for security and law enforcement purposes at the touch of a button.”

The U.S. Airforwarders Association told a congressional panel that the TSA should move toward permitting private contractors to train explosive-sniffing dogs.