Airport Breach of security

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.