Vang allegedly pilfered bags for everything from iPads to guns.

A Delta contractor who worked at MSP has been charged with 11 felonies for allegedly stealing $85,000 worth of stuff from checked bags.

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David Vang, 23, did maintenance work on baggage belt systems, but he apparently augmented his income by heisting iPads, laptops, luxury watches, jewelry, fishing equipment, and guns from travelers.

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Runways at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, which is now offering no-charge wireless internet.

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For four to five years, the lack of free wireless access at MSP Airport has been travelers' top complaint. Turns out, they ranted enough that the Metropolitan Airports Commission listened.


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You'll love the way we fill our cabin with smoky fumes.

Delta Flight 4086 to Wichita was taxiing at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport yesterday with 43 people aboard when a smelly haze filled the cabin, setting off smoke detectors in the lavatory and causing pilots to abort the takeoff.

Patrick Hogan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, says the incident was most likely  caused by de-icing fluid was vaporized by the warming engines and sucked into the cabin.

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MSP: It seems to peaceful from a distance.

Add this to the joy of flying during the upcoming holidays: A new survey finds that Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport's performance ranks even worse nationally than it did last year.

That's food for thought while you're waiting in line for either a bordering-on-molestation pat down, a full-body X-ray, or a blizzard to clear.

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Tragedy was narrowly averted over Minneapolis.

Modern airports and aircraft are packed with all kinds of technical safety wizardry. But some days, the clouds come down, some signals get crossed, and scary things happen.

In this case, a US Airways Airbus 320 with 90 passengers and five crew members came to within 100 feet of colliding with a much smaller cargo plane over Minneapolis on Sept. 16.

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A full-body scanner is almost up and running at MSP. Reach for the sky, folks.

Ready for your full frontal close-up? The news today is that the Transportation Safety Administration has now installed the first full-body scanner at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. In just a few weeks, when it's up and running, saying "reach for the sky" will take on a whole new meaning.

Exactly how much will a nameless, faceless government employee be able to see? A whole lot and more, if you take a look at the sample images we've posted below.

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Airport police are still investigating the sad case of the Delta mechanic who was killed in an accident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport yesterday.

Airport officials aren't saying much, but it has been reported that Jesse Paul Stygar, of Rosemount, died of a head injury. Airport police were called to Gate G14 at about 5:34 a.m. Tuesday, where they found Stygar lying inside a landing gear door. Stygar had no pulse.

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