Port Authority Head to Quit Amid Criticism
The head of the state agency that runs Boston’s Logan International Airport, where hijackers boarded the two planes used in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, resigned amid criticism of the airport’s security.
Virginia Buckingham, 36, said she would step down Nov. 15 as executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Buckingham, a political appointee with little experience in aviation or security, was criticized over airport security breaches after the terrorist attacks.
Tom Kinton, the port authority’s director of aviation, was named to serve as acting executive director.
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