Another TSA failure...Man Flies To Los Angeles Without Ticket Or ID

I cannot fully fault the individuals that check the documents. It is the working conditions that allow breaches to occur. The first item to tackle is to stop the self printing of boarding passes. There are too many varieties for security to contend with, including QR coded cellphone passes. The passes should be issued at the airport, the day of the flight, and have information to be checked in bold print and colors that change every day. The old Hollerith card with a mag stripe would be hard to counterfeit. The face could use microprinting and holographic windows to prevent fraud. I am sure in the existing security fee framework there is an extra dime for this.

The next thing is fatigue from doing the same task for an extended period. Check-point staff should be rotated every fifteen minutes, with 15 minutes off duty per hour. This is the only way to keep people fresh for this critical work. Even TSA people are human, and we need to recognize them as being subject to the same forces that work on us all.

Create an unpredictible atmosphere at check-in formalities. The bad guys can exploit any system they can observe and expect it to operate the same way when hatching an exploit. Change the layout and process order of the screening. Use blinds and turns to prevent observation of the process. At times, eliminate the line. Collect the passengers in a room, and issue numbers. Call the numbers at random to split up parties (except families with kids, or handicap service workers.) Passengers that require additional screening should have it done in private. The idea is to not allow criminals to see the process. Select some people for additional screening and simply pass them through. Setup workgroups of less than ten employess, and reward them for perfect attendence as a group, and for catching a high percentage of of security "tests" for contraband.

Give the TSA the tools that work at well managed companies, and they can shine too.

Can we please screen airport workers and crew out of sight of passengers? They can be done more quickly than ordinary passengers, and an extra level of care can be exercised if the TSA actually knows some of the faces.

No excuses boarding agents, and TSA should be held accountable.

It's pointless to have TSA check the ID's and boarding passes. These days, anyone who knows how to use a printer can fabricate a boarding pass in 30 seconds. The airlines are the ones that are catching this crap. Why not eliminate the extra cost of have a TSA goon checking id's and just let the airlines do their job.

So glad TSA hassled a depends wearing friend of my grandma but let this individual pass through security and board a domestic flight.

Just when you think they can't top the last fiasco here they come with another whopper. I guess they were busy checking an adult diaper or some threatening 6 year old. No excuse - just like the last half dozen episodes. Any guess how many times this joker has done this or how many others are getting by with it? Sure makes you feel safer doesn't it?

Glad to see my tax money is being put to good use. NOT!

Yeah safer

And the monster continues to eat its own.....

If we follow Ric Wernicke's procedures, we might as well reincarnate Hitler and let him run the TSA. How big do we have to make a beauracracy before we realize it is powerless? Until we begin to profile(there,I said it)the bad guys will slip through while licensed perverts are groping old ladies and children.

I guess he wasn't wearing an adult diaper, so he got through no problem...

It's the TSA's fault for not matching the names on the ID and the boarding pass and not checking the date. Of course, matching names and dates doesn't mean anything if the boarding pass is a fake. That has to be caught by the airlines. So you have two organizations at fault here with this scenario. The TSA for not catching the names and dates and the airline for not catching the date.

How did he get the old boarding passes? Whose names are on them and are they real persons? Also, he did not have a photo ID? The TSA seems to be wanting to imitate the scene in Airplane II (and this movie is in 1982!) where a grandma is being frisked against the wall, meanwhile terrorists with machine guns and rocket launchers go through the security unimpeded!

So where did they touch him during the check up?

How often do the TSA people get checked? I like the idea that they get tested daily. If they don't find the test subjects, they get canned.

If the whole purpose is to find people or things that should not be flying, and they aren't, then they should not be in those jobs. Percentage of error allowed for these simulated tests? Hopefully less than than what we are seeing for the real errors. Perfect system? No. Accountability? Yes.

Come on Skyddog, these are civilian government(soon to unionized)employees. Good luck with any form of accountablity for them.

Well, what I meant was...the "SHOULD" be accountable, but we all know that ain't happening.

There are so many holes in the system, I am surprised this does not happen more often. TSA does too much where they don't need to and not enough where they should. TSA is all a HIGH Visibility intity that really does not catch as much as they would like to claim.

I presented an expired boarding pass and made it all the way to the gate where it did not scan when I boarded the flight. I had the right boarding pass in my pocket but had acidently pulled out one from the previous month. No one would have noticed had not the scanner at the gate caught it.

With America's race to the bottom in pay scales, it does not surprise me that the TSA may not have the brightest bulbs on the Christmas Tree working for them. But in their defense, they have been asked to do a job that can get pretty boring and repetitive. On the one hand we expect them to thoroughly check and screen each passenger, their luggage, their credentials while at the same time we criticize them for being too invasive, slow and uncaring about the passengers. Can we expect more from them than we expect from others that serve us?

Can anyone even say the word "profile" anymore. The TSA has decided to stop all the cars to look for TANKS.