Experts say many contract workers, like Brian Howard, who started the blaze in Aurora, are often poorly paid and victims of an industry that cuts costs to survive
Before he allegedly set fire to a Chicago-area basement facility controlled by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), authorities say Brian Howard passed through a security checkpoint with a concealed gasoline container and had posted a message on Facebook saying goodbye to his family and indicating he intended to inflict harm on himself and others. I am about to take out [the FAA center] and my life, he wrote.
Luckily, the Friday blaze, which grounded hundreds of planes throughout the weekend and shut down OHare international airport, the nations busiest, did not result in deaths. Howard, 36, is currently recuperating in a local hospital and is charged with one count of destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities.
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Before he allegedly set fire to a Chicago-area basement facility controlled by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), authorities say Brian Howard passed through a security checkpoint with a concealed gasoline container and had posted a message on Facebook saying goodbye to his family and indicating he intended to inflict harm on himself and others. I am about to take out [the FAA center] and my life, he wrote.
Luckily, the Friday blaze, which grounded hundreds of planes throughout the weekend and shut down OHare international airport, the nations busiest, did not result in deaths. Howard, 36, is currently recuperating in a local hospital and is charged with one count of destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.