Business | Hidden in plane sight

An air marshal leaves her loaded gun in a plane toilet

Another reason to keep pistols out of the cabin

By B.R.

PEOPLE often enter a public toilet with a sense of trepidation; after all, who knows what horror might await behind the cubicle door. Even so, a passenger on a service between Manchester, Britain, and New York got a nasty surprise.

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