A flight attendant reported that the flight had boarded when a federal air marshall identified himse...

Narrative:

Agents at our departure airport failed to notify me as the #1 flight attendant of the presence of fam's onboard. We had a delayed boarding so there was plenty of time to notify me. I only found out after boarding began and the fam's came into the first class galley area to notify me of their presence. The captain was notified when he arrived at the gate after boarding had already begun. If the agents had time to notify the captain; then why didn't they notify me. I had already been onboard over an hour. This is not acceptable. If something would have happened in-flight; then I could have inadvertently attacked them; believing that they were going to attack me.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Flight Attendant reported that the flight had boarded when a Federal Air Marshall identified himself. The gate Agent had not identified the Marshalls.

Narrative: Agents at our departure airport failed to notify me as the #1 Flight Attendant of the presence of FAM's onboard. We had a delayed boarding so there was plenty of time to notify me. I only found out after boarding began and the FAM's came into the first class galley area to notify me of their presence. The Captain was notified when he arrived at the gate after boarding had already begun. If the agents had time to notify the Captain; then why didn't they notify me. I had already been onboard over an hour. This is not acceptable. If something would have happened in-flight; then I could have inadvertently attacked them; believing that they were going to attack me.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	867764
Time
Date	200912
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant In Charge
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Security

A flight attendant reported that the flight had boarded when a federal air marshall identified himself. The gate agent had not identified the marshalls.