Flight attendant totes gun into ORD

This week's story about a long-time flight attendant with American Airlines who began to pass through security on Friday with a loaded handgun in her carry-on bag should turn out to be much ado about nothing.

Her attorney said that the woman's husband left the gun in the bag they share after his trip to Michigan.

To be guilty of the offenses with which she is charged, she had to knowingly do what she is charged with. If she didn't know the gun was there, then she didn't knowingly commit the violations.

The 65-year-old woman from Palatine has been an American Airlines employee for 44 years. I think it's safe to say she missed that flight to Shanghai.