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Man passes DFW airport security, boards plane without ticket
U.S. transportation security officials are investigating how a man was able to pass through a security checkpoint without a ticket at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and board a commercial airliner, airport officials said on Monday. An airline agent discovered what happened before the flight departed and called airport police, who arrested the man on criminal trespassing charges, the airport said. (www.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think someone is in trouble... How did this idiot get through TSA and on board a flight without a ticket... To take a quote from an OLD TV program: "Someone's got some splainin to do!"
For what it's worth, I have made it through TSA with an old airline ticket (I accidentally pulled out the wrong one. But, I did need the current ticket to board the plane. So the TSA I can see him getting past, but not onto the plane.
"This nut case removed a rope stanchion that was use to prevent access to a closed screening lane."
"How was he able to do it?"
By using his index finger? A flick of a finger separates the plastic clip....the things do all the work as they whip back into the pole like a vacuum cord. In reality, TSA is only able to minimize safety risk, not prevent it. Most of of their purpose is to make you *FEEL* safer when you fly, and to mask the reality of how easy it is for someone get something on board if they wanted to. Take an example:....if you were standing in line at a bank, and a criminal came in to rob a teller, just rearrange those teller line barriers into a wall would prevent him from getting to, or from the teller..right?.....to the same extent they prevent anyone from getting past the checkpoint....our problem is what we are considering "secure", an event like this should seriously not surprise anyone.....
"How was he able to do it?"
By using his index finger? A flick of a finger separates the plastic clip....the things do all the work as they whip back into the pole like a vacuum cord. In reality, TSA is only able to minimize safety risk, not prevent it. Most of of their purpose is to make you *FEEL* safer when you fly, and to mask the reality of how easy it is for someone get something on board if they wanted to. Take an example:....if you were standing in line at a bank, and a criminal came in to rob a teller, just rearrange those teller line barriers into a wall would prevent him from getting to, or from the teller..right?.....to the same extent they prevent anyone from getting past the checkpoint....our problem is what we are considering "secure", an event like this should seriously not surprise anyone.....
The TSA's purpose is to make us feel safer and more secure? That is funny.
Ok, I'll agree that some procedures and authorizations are worthy of review and amendment. Perhaps you are not aware of the matter being addressed in this article and thread. The facts of this case are that a lovelorn, disconsolate young guy breached a poorly attended checkpoint and ran onto an airplane to plead with his (ex)girlfriend. And you believe someone should be posted who has a "green light" to shoot and kill him? Maybe some other "parts" of you are steel as well and you don't know about this little thing called love? The airplane is on the ground and there are a multitude of civilized and non-lethal measures available to effectively remedy the situation. I don't know how the demonic idea got instilled that "LEO's" can do their jobs by remote control and shoot people when they do things they don't like. Such a job as an LEO means you take some risks.
He did it for love:
A man who slipped past security and boarded a commercial airliner without a ticket at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was trying to stop his girlfriend from leaving, airport police said on Tuesday.
Damarias Cockerham, 25, said he walked through a Transportation Security Administration screening area Sunday night without identification or a boarding pass and was not blocked by an agent, according to a police report.
Cockerham, from the Dallas suburb of Garland, ran onto American Airlines Flight 1013 to Guatemala City because, "he didn't want his girlfriend going down there and being with the wrong guy," the police said.
An airline agent called airport police, who arrested the man on criminal trespassing charges before the flight left. He had parked his vehicle at a curbside terminal entrance before entering the airport.
A TSA spokesman said on Monday that the agency was working with the airport to evaluate passenger security checkpoints and had added barriers following the incident.
Airport officials did not release custody information for Cockerham.
A man who slipped past security and boarded a commercial airliner without a ticket at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was trying to stop his girlfriend from leaving, airport police said on Tuesday.
Damarias Cockerham, 25, said he walked through a Transportation Security Administration screening area Sunday night without identification or a boarding pass and was not blocked by an agent, according to a police report.
Cockerham, from the Dallas suburb of Garland, ran onto American Airlines Flight 1013 to Guatemala City because, "he didn't want his girlfriend going down there and being with the wrong guy," the police said.
An airline agent called airport police, who arrested the man on criminal trespassing charges before the flight left. He had parked his vehicle at a curbside terminal entrance before entering the airport.
A TSA spokesman said on Monday that the agency was working with the airport to evaluate passenger security checkpoints and had added barriers following the incident.
Airport officials did not release custody information for Cockerham.