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savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,446 ✭✭✭✭
edited June 2011 in General Discussion
and was caught not by the TSA but the flight attendants
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Invalid-Boarding-Pass-JFK-Los-Angeles-Atlanta-Arrest-124771394.html

Federal agents have arrested a Nigerian man after he successfully flew from New York to Los Angeles, and tried to fly from there to Atlanta, without having a valid boarding pass for either flight.

Investigators say Olajide Noibi boarded a Virgin America flight that left John F. Kennedy Airport last Friday.

Neither the airline nor the Transportation Security Administration noticed that his ID -- a University of Michigan student card -- did not match the name on his boarding pass. While the plane was in the air, flight attendants became suspicious because Noibi was sitting in a seat that the passenger list indicated was empty.

Noibi handed them a boarding pass that was for a flight the day before. Investigators say he told them he had missed that flight.

The flight crew then realized that his name didn't match the name on the boarding pass and that he was not on the passenger list. An FBI agent later discovered that the boarding pass Noibi presented had been printed out by a New York man who lost it in the subway on his way to Kennedy Airport for that same flight.

Shots: Andy Dick More Multimedia Virgin America said in a statement that it was working with the FBI in the investigation into how Noibi passed TSA screening at JFK and boarded with an erroneous boarding pass.

"The airline maintains security and other screening systems in place to prevent such an occurrence, however in this case it appears staff may have missed an alert when the passenger presented a boarding pass from a prior flight," Virgin said.

Los Angeles FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says FBI Agent Kevin R. Hogg met the flight from New York and detained and questioned Noibi before letting him go. "He wasn't arrested at that time. Beyond traveling without a ticket there was no immediate threat," Eimiller said.

An FBI agent then arrested him on Wednesday when he tried to board a Delta flight to Atlanta. The agent said Noibi had at least 10 other boarding passes in one of his bags -- none of them in his own name.

Eimiller said Noibi is in custody pending a 10:30 a.m. hearing Friday in Los Angeles. Noibi has been charged with being a stowaway.

The TSA said in a statement that it could not comment on the specifics of the case, but pointed out that the passenger had gone through security screening.

A law enforcement official tells NBC New York that the man is not believed to have ties to terrorism, and may have mental problems.

It was not immediately clear whether Noibi had a lawyer.

His uncle in Atlanta, Tunde Noibi, told NBC New York he was "not a bad guy" and said he did not know why his nephew had been in New York City.

"I told him if you needed help, feel free to call me," the uncle said.

Comments

  • RogueStatesmanRogueStatesman Member Posts: 5,760
    edited November -1
    The TSA is good for nothing but fulfilling their own sexual desires when feeling up law-abiding passengers who are looking for a legitimate ride.
  • blazen91blazen91 Member Posts: 270 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am certainly relieved that he wasn't a TERRORIST! BUT, I am elated that he stuck it to the TSA. He just proved without a doubt that the TSA was set up to constrict OUR liberties and not to protect US![B)]
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,184 ******
    edited November -1
    what's the penalty for being a stowaway? Do you get popsicles?
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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