Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
More disturbing than a teen’s decision to hide in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii was how easily he was able to slip past layers of security Sunday morning.
The Washington Post reports that the 15-year-old boy, who was running away from home, showed how a determined person could bypass security and sneak onto a plane without notice.
It’s not that surveillance cameras didn’t capture the boy slip past security at San Jose International Airport; it’s that no one saw him on the video screen.
“There’s no way to guarantee security, even if you had one person per video screen,” Richard Bloom, an airport security expert at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona
Airport officials said they are reviewing the breach to determine who to avoid a similar failure.
