An 11 year old boy, who ran away from home after a dispute with his parents, managed to board a Jet2 flight bound for Rome without a ticket, boarding pass or even a passport.
He was only stopped when concerned passengers on-board the flight alerted cabin crew. He would probably have gone undetected by the passengers if it wasn’t for his “excitable” behaviour, leading me to believe he suffers from a form of autism.
Still quite a feat by someone of 11, but now the questions must be asked how he got through Manchester airport exit control, past the gate agents and through the ‘on the door’ checks by the cabin crew.
If FCO’s immigration control was anything like Manchester’s exit control, then the potential consequences for the family involved were huge.
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2012 at 06:51
The story sounds a bit fishy to me. I wonder whether he was a newspaper plant of some sort.
Perhaps the said child will find his way into the Men’s Olympic 100m Finals unaccompanied, next.
By: neil osborne - 26th July 2012 at 11:48
And also the fact he looks a right spoilt brat, well in today’s comic The Sun. Like it how they went for the “innocent kid” look with him pictured with a cuddly toy….:rolleyes:
Like you say, probably more to it than meets the eye.
By: AlanR - 26th July 2012 at 11:35
I wonder if there’s more to this story than meets the eye ? :rolleyes:
The timing was certainly very good.
By: tomkeus - 26th July 2012 at 11:35
There is no such thing as flawless management system in any large scale process (being industry or transportation), anywhere. When you deal with millions of passengers, this kinds of oversights are going to happen, and there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. Measures can be undertaken to minimise them but, they cannot be eliminated. There were probably more incidents like this, but it just happened that this was the first one someone noticed.
The problem is today’s paranoia and this stupid notion of perfect security, particularly present in UK and USA establishment. This doesn’t exist, never did and it never will. The best one can do, is make sure everyone does his job as best as humanly possible.
By: Ewan Hoozarmy - 26th July 2012 at 10:16
Passport Control – Check
Security – Check
Boarding gate – Check
Boarding on the aeroplane – Check
Count numbers boarding -Check
At least 5 checks could have prevented this; I think this sums up the inadequacies of the whole security/airport experience.:eek:
By: symon - 26th July 2012 at 07:24
Almost sounds like Home Alone 2!
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July 25, 2012 at 6:31 pm