Aug
12
Well, nothing much has been said around the airport about the security breach that happened at Charlotte Douglas International Airport a few days ago. From the news stories I have read, the man who allegedly breached security at the concourse C security checkpoint was never found. About 10 flights that departed after the concourse was shutdown were searched when they landed without incident at their destinations. The man was not found on any of those flights.
TSA spokesman Chris White said the planes went to La Guardia in New York; Baltimore; Windsor Locks, Conn.; Dallas-Fort Worth; Jacksonville, Fla.; Memphis, Tenn.; Indianapolis; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; Los Angeles; Boston; San Diego; Philadelphia; St. Louis; and Washington.
The flights all landed without incident, and TSA officials did not find the man on board any of them.”We’re investigating what happened and it’s too soon to say whether there was malicious intent or whether it was someone who was confused and passed the security screening,” Allen said.TSA officials now say they don’t know what happened to the man. White said late Friday afternoon the TSA is no longer searching for him and speculated he may have simply walked out of the Charlotte airport.Officials said they are doing a “post mortem” where they are watching surveillance video from inside the airport, interviewing witnesses and security workers and reconstructing what happened. Officials said then they will review their response to the incident and decide whether anything should have been done differently.Officials said they are not only reviewing the incident as part of a criminal investigation, but also to make sure they did everything possible to keep flights on schedule.The airport experienced delays of up to an hour, but were no widespread back-ups since operations both inside and outside began running normally shortly after the security breach.
Who really knows what happened. This really does raise a lot of concerns if the man was never found. Did he just walk right back out of the airport without being seen? How could they have not seen that with all the security cameras around the airport?
Now it’s your turn to talk! What do you think about TSA never finding the man?
It is scary! That shows the security plan for that airport has gaps that need to be addressed.
Most airports have them - the large airport I live near - had a huge security breach shown on tv was horrid.
terrorist “dry run”?
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_run:
“A dry run is a testing process where the effects of a possible failure are intentionally mitigated. For example, the individuals who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US prepared for their missions by staging dry runs on the same flights before the actual attack.
In computer studies, a dry run is a mental run of a program, where the programmer examines the source code one step at a time and determines what it will do when run.
The usage of “dry run” in acceptance procedures (for example in the so called FAT = Factory Acceptance Procedure) is meant as following: the factory (which is a subcontractor) must perform a complete test of the system it has to deliver before the actual acceptance from the contractor side.”
That is interesting Israel
No idea stormin! but it is pretty scary that they couldn’t find the person!
Do you people think that your actually protected against people like this? Anyone, and I mean anyone who really wants to get past airport security can and will. TSA is nothing but a false sense of security given to the everyday rookie traveler so they feel better about flying.(just politics in my eyes to KEEP people flying oh yea and create jobs). Wake up people, flying is a calculated risk you take, and it will always be that way no matter how “secure” you are.(as if this was not enough of a wake up call).
Lets not forget the 15-25 year old trash heaps we fly on. That should be where we focus our attention. If anything the terrorists did us a huge favor by flying a few of them into the ground. Now we might be able to get on one or two fairly safe aircraft, but for the most part they all suck!
Just FYI, I personally have navigated around security in order to catch a flight on many occasions. I know lots of people who do as well. And yes they can easily loose a man when you have a bunch of stupid ass minimum wage meat heads as TSA (and just for the record half of them are theifs). Cameras are useless to the untrained individual.
Now go and cry to your congressmen. Or pray to your god or whatever it is stupid people do.
Thats for the info Travel Master - At the airport we goto they arnt all meat heads but most are - ive slipped through unchecked before purely by accident but thats a bad risk.
Slipping around security is NOT the thing to do. YOU WILL face serious consequences when doing so. We may hate going through security, but it is there for our protection. It throughly disgusts me that you admit you have bypassed security!
Now flying is a risk we take, and it just a risk like everything we do in our lives…like driving a car. Altho it is proven that flying is still the safest form of travel!