Man slips through N.C. airport security

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: MSNBC.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A man bypassed security screening Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and likely made it onto a flight that departed before he could be found, officials said.

The man slipped past screeners shortly before 8 a.m., a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said. Officials searched about 15 planes on the ground and shut down a concourse without finding him, spokesman Jon Allen said.

Allen said 12 other flights left the airport before the search, and officials believe the man is on one of those flights. Those passengers will be screened when they land, he said.

“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.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20212962/

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The only paragraph not quoted above says that flights were delayed about an hour.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I'll bet those passengers screened on landing are going to be fit to be tied.

So now we can be held against our will at destination airports?

[CottonBear]

2. Yeah, and some guy flew into and around the US w/ a monkey in his hat.

Airport security is a joke.

[old guy]

3. Ok, if they don't know which plane he got on,

How do they know he even got on a plane in the first place? Also, they will find him when he gets to his destination? This assumes his plane reaches its destination. The whole thing fails to instill much confidence in the system.

[SSpeedracer]

4. maybe he was smuggling weapons from iran into iraq

[tanyev]

5. In his hat.

[uppityperson]

7. thank you and previous poster for this.

[Ian David]

6. See prior thread

TSA searched about 6 airplanes without finding man who slipped past security
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=116&topic_id=15934&mesg_id=15934