Airport Breach of security

I thought putting them on a plane home if they had no passport was what you wanted? Can't win these days.

It's hard to imagine how he went about that?

It could be possible that he did have a ticket and ID or possible a fake ID and went through security with ease. Later on he destroyed the ticket plus the fake ID and stated and lied he never had one in the first place? It's not impossible that it happened this way.

He was probably only questioned but never strip searched?

T2, no auto scanners there. Wouldn't happen with Ryanair!

Same here, good luck to both of us. But I'm slumming it in Terminal 1.

T2 doesn't have gates at security like T1 but the person manning the entrance to security does scan the boarding pass bar code - so he must have had something which allowed him through. At boarding gate the boarding pass is scanned by Aer Lingus staff so, again hard to see how he got past that and onto the flight unless of course he simply walked past with stopping and was therefore identified and removed. I think there are more facts than reported.

Terminal 2

Judgement Day on boards

He got caught on the plane before it took off. Not ideal, but clearly the system ultimately worked.

It's a bit far-fetched to call it a breach of security, considering he went through security

CCTV would not have picked up what kind of ticket or ID he was using. He could have destroyed them in the washroom as well, most likely no CCTV there?

I think he went through security with a fake ID and a ticked booked under that fake ID. He later destroyed them both and was practically inside the airport security zone, not having ID, not having a ticket. And when questioned he said, he tried and security was ineffective, etc....

The last check, the headcount or the fact that he couldn't find a seat found him out.

It's not great

I heard on the radio this morning that he brushed past the staff checking boarding passes and passports at the gate, and went on to the plane. Staff immediately called security to have him removed.

It is fairly brazen, like he just thought he'd chance getting a free flight? It seems more likely he was testing security, maybe a journalist or a foreign security agent trying to highlight security issues?

I'm not fearful of terrorism really, I don't see whose agenda is advanced by targeting Dublin airport. I mean sure general western decadence or whatever but Dublin is far down the list.

Did he just say that he had no ID and no passport or was he searched? Suppose he said no he had no passport but instead could have hidden one on himself. So getting by or fooling security and the airline is one thing, but if he indeed had a passport but lied about having one, he could have made it through immigration in the country where he was going to....

If I remember correctly, they haven't checked my boarding pass at a plane for ages. They checked my passport. The boarding pass was checked at security. So it's possible he had a passport but no ticket/pass.

They scan your boarding card and check your passport/ID at the gate, but no longer check your boarding pass at the aircraft door. Security have never checked passports, all you need is a boarding card.

By all accounts this guy just barged past the gate check and was apprehended immediately afterwards. I suspect others are right, that he had a boarding card for *a* flight, just not the one he got on, and this isn't the massive "gotcha" for the DAA that it's being presented as.

Edit. I just wrote a reply to a post that I misread.

Carry on......

Any system will have an inherent failure rate. There is no such thing as 100% reliability. The fact that this incident make headline news shows the system works. 1 incident from 20,000,000 passengers per annum. And with any system, once a failure is identified hopefully action will be taken to turn 1 / 20 million to 1/200 million.

Also, from the report the individual barged past gate staff on onto the plane and the guards notified immediately, so it appears at the second control point he was detected

You're making this up, it wasn't how he was discovered.

It seems the Indo left out some very important information from their story.

RTE are reporting that he "barged past" the gate staff and onto the plane, and so Airport Police were called and he was arrested.

There was no chance the plane was going to take off with him doing that. Airline staff aren't going to physically intervene when someone acts like that, for their own safety. They rightly leave that to the Airport Police.

Airplane! Security 😁

A true post.Do people mean the boarding pass readers when they say security?Matching ID but not just any ID needed at checkin.This person could have picked up a dropped/lost boarding pass but would still need ID to match.I have never got on a plane of any airline anywhere on the planet without showing matching ID.Some airlines for instance Ryanair exclude work ID.I have used my work ID for police/immigration check where I know it will be accepted and speed my progress thru an airport-not routinely,only when necessary.

The airline gate staff should have been sacked by now.I was considering the Indo story to be a plant for unknown reasons but the individual's name and address can be verified.