http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18979032
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid and I ran away from home, I never went this far!
Boy, 11, boards plane to Italy at Manchester Airport without passport
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18979032
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid and I ran away from home, I never went this far!
That will be a story he can tell to his future kids
.... and they won't believe him.....
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I was staying in Hayes with my friend and his grandparents in 86. We spent time at Heathrow taking pictures and watching the planes from the Queens building I think it was. When we went for a walk around the airport we almost walked onto a plane without realising following a crowd down what we thought was a corridor.
Security at airports is supposed to be so much better today but this is what happens when people are red misted into looking for certain signs and not universally observant.
The crew on the plane must have been so sure of the security checks before the gate that they were not comprehensive on the boarding checks. Seems also to point to a domino effect of each security stage presuming the previous had done the job effectively and that added to the red mist of only checking for certain signs.
For the boy; epic! he will be his friends hero for a long while, adventure right out of boys own.
Security at airports is supposed to be so much better today but this is what happens when people are red misted into looking for certain signs and not universally observant.
The crew on the plane must have been so sure of the security checks before the gate that they were not comprehensive on the boarding checks. Seems also to point to a domino effect of each security stage presuming the previous had done the job effectively and that added to the red mist of only checking for certain signs.
For the boy; epic! he will be his friends hero for a long while, adventure right out of boys own.
So basically every concurrent check becomes less important?
I thought it was from Rome to here, I thought security was supposed to be tight in this country
Only coming in, mate made it to Spain with an out of date passport. Security only spotted it at uk border controll. And where like me well not much we can do, you were lucky.
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Where were his parents when he was doing all this by the way?
Perhaps click the link and read.
He was shopping with his mum when he ran away, she told security and traced him with CCTV.
Snorting crushed ecstasy at the local jobcentreplus apparently.
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Seems so; multiple checks have a purpose to check for things missed by previous checks. I think a red mist clouded the vigilance of the staff also with the threat of terrorism, something like "oh a boy, must be with his family".
I think it would be much easier as a child...adults are less likely to challenge you, and all you have to do is stand near a family with loads of kids and shuffle through...kids are never given their own boarding pass as parents usually keep hold of them...shove a fistful of them at an attendant who has another 200 people to get onto a plane, is she likely to count up the number of kids stood behind and adult?
