Man boards plane at JFK with expired boarding pass
When you fly domestically in the US, TSA might or might not grope you, but they are supposed to look at your boarding pass and ID as you get into the security line. That’s a pre-grope requirement. So how did this happen?
CBS News has confirmed that authorities are looking into a shocking security breach that took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week.
Investigators say Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian, boarded Virgin America Flight 415 to Los Angeles without a valid passport or identification, using an expired boarding pass for a flight the day before that belonged to someone else.
Officials say Noibi got through security and was able to board the plane. No one noticed until the flight was airborne when a flight attendant realized Noibi was sitting in a seat that was supposed to be vacant.
He showed the attendant the expired boarding pass that was in someone else’s name and then showed him a University of Michigan identification card with his picture on it.
Investigators say the boarding pass belonged to a man who said his boarding pass went missing from his pocket on his way to the airport on June 23.
This incident didn’t even get the man arrested. He finally got picked up when he went to LAX a few days later and tried using another expired boarding pass to get on a flight to Atlanta. Turns out, he had 10 other expired boarding passes with him.
TSA isn’t the only entity at fault here, since the airlines typically scan boarding passes with a computer to assure the pass is valid before you board, but TSA definitely shares the blame on this. Once the man tried boarding with an expired pass, he should have been picked up in the security line — the pass was in another person’s name from the student ID. Why wasn’t he picked up then? Why wasn’t he arrested at LAX when that plane landed? And how is he getting ahold of so many boarding passes? TSA, we need some answers.
This is crazy; here I am refusing to visit the US as long as its security makes travelling as pleasant, inviting and stress-free as one would expect from the Gestapo and yet it appears only American citizens are threatened with having their nappies confiscated, their genitalia groped and their children traumatised.
I do remember that the so-called underwear bomber of 2009 was a Nigerian. Northwestern airlines, I believe…
But he couldn’t possibly be a terrorist- he wasn’t an elderly white woman in a wheelchair or a 6 year old child.
Just an honest mistake he made was all….
Our airports are being run by the DMV. I cannot wait until 2014, when our health care will be run the same way, when OCare kicks in.
Was the TSA this bad under Bush, as well? Does everything Obama touch just turn to s***?
I wish they were run by the DMV.
Maybe he had a “well-dressed man” helping him to convince TSA to let him on the plane.
Isn’t that how the underpants bomber got on his particular plane? What ever happened to that part of the story? Probably not really interesting, I guess.