WTH? Holiday travelers beware! Baggage handlers caught on camera stealing valuables from checked luggage (video)

Taking a trip for the holidays? Travelers are being warned today not to put valuable items in their luggage after newly-released surveillance tapes show baggage handlers stealing from suitcases.

The footage was released by Port Authority in New York after Israel's El Al Airlines last summer received complaints from passengers that belongings were disappearing from luggage.

Secret cameras were installed in planes only to discover that staff were methodically rifling through bags and removing watches, cash, iPhones and jewellery.

A baggage handler is caught on camera rifling through a passenger's wallet after airport authorities set up a sting following reports of theft
A baggage handler is caught on camera rifling through a passenger's wallet after airport authorities set up a sting following reports of theft

An airport worker winds up a pair of headphones and stuffs them in his pocket during a stealing spree through luggage in the belly of a plane
An airport worker winds up a pair of headphones and stuffs them in his pocket during a stealing spree through luggage in the belly of a plane

ABC News released the exclusive video of baggage handlers stealing items from travelers' checked bags on Tuesday.

In one clip, a worker removes a wad of notes from a wallet before searching for credit cards, then moving on to unzip the next bag.




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