Boarding Pass Hoarder Goes Right Through Security at JFK
 

Authorities Investigate Security Breach At JFK Airport After Man Flies
To Los Angeles Without Ticket Or ID
June 30, 2011 9:50 AM
NYC Is A Strange Place

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – CBS News has confirmed that authorities are
looking into a shocking security breach that took place at John F.
Kennedy International Airport last week.

Investigators say Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian, boarded Virgin
America Flight 415 to Los Angeles without a valid passport or
identification, using an expired boarding pass for a flight the day
before that belonged to someone else.

Officials say Noibi got through security and was able to board the
plane. No one noticed until the flight was airborne when a flight
attendant realized Noibi was sitting in a seat that was supposed to be
vacant.

He showed the attendant the expired boarding pass that was in someone
else’s name and then showed him a University of Michigan identification
card with his picture on it.

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Investigators say the boarding pass belonged to a man who said his
boarding pass went missing from his pocket on his way to the airport on
June 23.

Investigators say Noibi used that pass to board the plane the next day.

Noibi was allowed to get off the plane when it landed in Los Angeles.

Days later, investigators say he went back to LAX and tried to board a
Delta flight to Atlanta.

This time, he was searched and airport officials found 10 expired
boarding passes in his bag , none of them in his name.

The Transportation Security Administration says Noibi was screened
before he boarded the flight from New York.

“Every passenger that passes through security checkpoints is subject to
many layers of security including thorough physical screening at the
checkpoint,” Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule
said. “TSA’s review of this matter indicates that the passenger went
through screening.”

Noibi was taken into custody and has been charged with being a stowaway
but not under any terror or security laws.

The investigation is still ongoing.