An American flight attendant and cancer survivor said she was forced to remove her prosthetic breast and show it to a TSA agent during a security pat-down.
Cathy Bossi, who has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, said she reluctantly went through the new full-body scanners and she was then sent to be patted down at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in August.
“The TSA agent told me to put my ID on my back. When I got out of there, she said because my ID was on my back, I had to go to a personal screening area”, Bossi said.
Bossi, who didn’t want the added radiation through her body but reluctantly agreed, revealed that she was taken to a private room where two female officials accompanied her and began an “aggressive” pat down but stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast, the one where she’d had surgery.
She was also asked to remove her prosthetic breast from her bra and show it to the officer.
“There are blowers and there are dogs that could sniff out bombs. There’s no reason to have somebody’s hands touching your body parts”, Bossi added.
She reportedly contacted the flight attendants union’s Legislative Affairs Team after the incident but it was still unclear if she removed her prosthetic breast to show the TSA agent.
