[h3]Gatwick lets no-ticket/no-passport 12-year-old onto a plane
[/h3] [blockquote] People readily assert they are willing to travel without any hand luggage at all, undergo elaborate full-body, luggage (and shoe) screenings, dump all liquids together into collecting bins, including the soft drink purchased while waiting hours due to these procedures, or wait for the eventual retrieval of their piece of the at least [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4795821.stm"]10000 misplaced bags[/a] of British Airways passengers gone missing since the beginning of the security alert, etc. -- all in exchange for an increased level security, of course. To fool such a system, it takes a 12-year-old boy, as reported by newspaper [a href="vny!://www.faz.net/s/Rub21DD40806F8345FAA42A456821D3EDFF/Doc%7EE39C0FDABF2D14C7BA23AD61DCB218299%7EATpl%7EEcommon%7EScontent.html"]FAZ (in German)[/a]. He managed to get onboard a plane at Gatwick airport in London (at the origin city of the planned attacks) during the ongoing high-alert phase -- without even possessing a passport or ticket!
[/p]The airport spokesperson stresses there was no danger for anyone -- maybe because the drink and snack that the boy was already consuming in the plane during the head count just before take-off (which finally revealed that there was one passenger too much and stopped the affair) had been offered to him by the crew and had not been smuggled into the cabin. The mother of the boy and the airline, however, have different opinions and are concerned about the fact this could happen at all. Apparently, the boy had run away from a care home and taken the train to London, again without ticket, prior to boarding 'his' flight to Lisbon. [/p][/blockquote] 10,000 lost bags? Woah. Now [em]that's[/em] security. [a href="vny!://www.faz.net/s/Rub21DD40806F8345FAA42A456821D3EDFF/Doc%7EE39C0FDABF2D14C7BA23AD61DCB218299%7EATpl%7EEcommon%7EScontent.html"]Link[/a]
