http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/226665421.html
By PAT PHEIFER
Star Tribune
October 6, 2013
The 9-year-old boy who stowed away on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to
Las Vegas on Thursday passed through three security checkpoints at the
airport without a boarding pass or identification, officials and an
airline expert said Sunday.
“I’ve worked at the airport for 13 years, and we have more than 33 million
people go through the terminal every year, and I’ve never heard of
anything like this happening before,” said Pat Hogan, a spokesman for the
Metropolitan Airports Commission.
The boy got through the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA)
checkpoint and past a Delta gate agent, and didn’t get scrutinized by
flight attendants before the plane took off from Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport, said Terry Trippler, owner of ThePlaneRules.com.
“I put it more on Delta than the TSA,” said Trippler, saying that the boy
blended in with a family traveling with children. If an adult handed the
TSA agent six boarding passes, it would be fairly easy to miss it if there
were seven people, he said.
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