The Academy Award statuette for “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” whose co-director and star is Pavel Talankin, is found after going missing following a flight departure from New York, multiple outlets report. Talankin says TSA agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport did not allow him to carry the Oscar onto his Lufthansa flight to Germany. According to his account, the agents told him the award could be used as a weapon, and he was therefore required to check it into the aircraft’s cargo hold. After the flight, the statuette was reported missing, with Talankin and the reporting outlets citing the airline’s handling as the point of failure. The airline involved later informs that the Oscar statuette has been recovered and returned. The incident centers on a TSA security decision at the airport and the subsequent loss during air transport, with the final development being the statuette’s recovery.
Missing Oscar for co-director of Putin documentary found after TSA required it be checked
The Academy Award statuette for “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” whose co-director and star is Pavel Talankin, is found after going missing following a flight departure from New York, multiple outlets repo...
- Pavel Talankin is the co-director and star of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin.”
- TSA officials at New York’s JFK did not allow Talankin to bring the Oscar on the flight.
- TSA officials told Talankin the statuette could be used as a weapon.
- Talankin said he had to check the Oscar into the plane’s cargo hold.
- The missing Oscar statuette is later reported found after the airline’s involvement.
Pavel Talankin, a co-director and star of the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” was told by T.S.A. agents that his Academy Award could be used as a weapon.
3 months agoAgents would not allow Pavel Talankin to carry statuette for Mr Nobody Against Putin on to flight from New YorkSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, star and co-director of the Academy award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, that went missing after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials refused to let him carry it with him on his flight in New York has been found, according to the airline involved.Talankin said he lost his Oscar after TSA agents at New York’s John F Kennedy airport refused to let him bring it on a Lufthansa flight to Germany, claiming it could be used as a weapon. Continue reading...
3 months agoDirector Pavel Talankin had been forced to check the award into hold luggage in New York after TSA agents told him it posed a potential security threat
3 months agoTSA agents allegedly insisted that Pavel Talankin check the gold-plated award into the plane’s cargo hold, claiming it “could be used as a weapon” in the cabin.
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