Man gets past airport security with invalid boarding pass

[Fuddnik]

Source: MSNBC.com

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Federal agents have arrested a Nigerian man after he successfully flew from New York to Los Angeles, and then attempted to fly from Los Angeles to Atlanta, without having a valid boarding pass for either flight.


Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi cleared security at John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 24 and successfully boarded Virgin America flight 415 — even though his boarding pass was not issued in his name and was for a flight the day before, according to the FBI.

But neither Virgin America nor the Transportation Security Administration noticed that Noibi's identification — a University of Michigan student card — did not match the name on his boarding pass.
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Noibi was arrested Wednesday when law enforcement officials saw him trying to board another flight and discovered he had more than 10 other expired boarding passes belonging to others in his bag.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43590961/ns/travel-news/

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TSA Director Barney Fife was unavailable for comment, and everyone else was on diaper duty.

[RC]

1. I alway wondered it the computer checked the boarding pass when scanned.

The answer is no. The info is just added to a list, nothing more.
More proof airport security is more about intimidation of the masses and not so much security.

[crim son]

2. Will this inspire a move to legalize random cavity searches? n/t

[Javaman]

3. Well TSA's first mistake was that they didn't check his adult diaper. nt

[PADemD]

5. +1000000

[FLPanhandle]

4. Getting past security with an invalid boarding pass would be easy

You can print boarding passes from your home computer and change them around all you want.

I'd be more worried about Virgin Airlines not scanning in the boarding pass. That shouldn't work.

[Fuddnik]

6. Now they're going to require barcodes on adult diapers.

They have to make sure they have the right asshole.

[truebrit71]

7. It wasn't in his diaper, and didn't show up when they irradiated him...

...so how were they to know? :sarcasm:

[SaveAmerica]

8. And yet toddlers are given pelvic exams and grandmaws are de-diapered...

[uppityperson]

9. getting through security, all you need is a printed boarding pass, that's easy to do.

Getting onto a plane, now that is something that shouldn't have happened and I hope they go after the airlines for that.

[LisaL]

11. No, you also need an ID.

[uppityperson]

12. True, you also need id. They don't compare your boarding pass with anything except ID

at least not that I've seen. I meant you need, along with ID, just something that looks like a boarding pass, whether or not it is one you will use. Having gotten through with an outdated one is wrong, an error on TSA's part.

[StarsInHerHair]

10. tsa kabuki failure

[pitohui]

13. well i don't see why airport security should be responsible for revenue protection

no one was ever hijacked by having a boarding pass rammed in their solar plexis

so...the harm here is...virgin airlines is out some dollars because a guy flew without paying, i'd say that's their fucking sad story

the weird thing is, planes fly out SO full that you're almost guaranteed to get caught if you do this, because someone is going to be assigned to your seat

i have reported several folks who boldly boarded a plane and sat in my seat, but most of the time it's one of two issues, neither of them a security issue -- airline upgraded me to first but hasn't yet informed me that i hold the wrong boarding pass (this is the case i'd say 80 percent of the time someone else holds a boarding pass to my seat) or fuckwit knows he's a seat jumper and when i say, i'm going to ask the flight attendant, he gets up and goes to his regularly scheduled middle seat 42B in the back of the bus (i always book exit row aisle when i fly coach, and obviously a lot of people would like to steal that)

in no case would i allow someone to take my seat unexplained, would you? would anybody?

i'm glad they caught the thief but the only real danger was to timid people who don't insist on sitting in the seat they bought and virgin airlines which got careless about checking to make sure he held a valid boarding pass

TSA is there to catch terrorists, not nigerian scammers, and i would like them to continue to focus on that terrorism thingy, if virgin america don't mind too terribly much