British boy sneaks on plane in London

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_re_eu/britain_boy_on_board

LONDON - A 12-year-old boy managed to get around stepped up security and board a jetliner at an airport outside London without a passport or a boarding pass.

The boy was discovered by cabin crew and turned over to airport police. Officials said they could not explain how he got aboard the plane, especially in light of security checks imposed last week after authorities foiled an alleged plot to bomb jetliners leaving Britain.

The youngster, who was not named because of his age, left a children's home near Liverpool and began the 245-mile journey Monday by taking a train to London and then going to Gatwick airport outside the city, said Phil Green, spokesman for the Wigan town council, which oversees the boy's care.

"Police were alerted as soon as it was realized he had absconded," Green said.

Once at Gatwick, the boy dodged stringent airport security and made his way aboard a 6 a.m. Monarch Airlines flight to Lisbon, Portugal.

He was noticed by a staff member and taken to the airport's police station before the plane departed.

Christine Smith, a Sussex police spokeswoman, said the boy waited in the station until social services officials arrived. "As far as I'm aware he was quite well-behaved," she said.

The British Airports Authority said it was investigating the incident.

Bwhahahaha...Even after the whole terrorist plot bullshit, a little boy was able to sneak on a plane.
 
Wow a little boy outdoing trained Terrorists.

Hahahah
 
it's actually quite scary..... but pretty funny also
 
Stay on topic plz!

This thread is about the danger of sneaks on a plane.

I think I have had enough of these well-behaved sneaks on this Monarch Airlines plane.
There is the possibility that on board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, could let loose a crate full of deadly sneaks.
 
I'm tired of these mutha ****in sneaks on this mutha ****in plane.
 
The kid did not make onto the plane, when he had to present his boarding pass which he did not have he was escorted away from the plane.

He sneaked past security checks but failed on the last check and did not board the plane.
 
Why exactly is this story in the politics section exactly?
Seems more off-topic, or even movies and vids (thanks to mecha).
 
Because it relates to the terror plot situation and because well...I wanted to post it here bitch.
 
I was on a flight recently here in the US where two people got on borard knowing very little English and with two other people's boarding passes! They wanted to go to LA and this was a flight to Philadelphia and they still got on and we were on the runaway waiting in line for takeoff before a stewardess was alerted and we had to go back to the gate and let them off...hopefully into that waiting arms of the law. Still, pretty scary though...

But a kid? Not surprising they got on. Nobody considers them a threat--they just want to make sure they get on the plane and sit and be quiet because their parents aren't around to watch them. Al-Queda should look into this...:|
 
But kids are a lot smaller than a terrorist loaded up with dynamites, right?
 
But...it says right there...

"A 12-year-old boy managed to get around stepped up security and board a jetliner at an airport outside London without a passport or a boarding pass."

"Once at Gatwick, the boy dodged stringent airport security and made his way aboard a 6 a.m. Monarch Airlines flight to Lisbon, Portugal."
 
I heard a complety different story from the ground crew. Apparantly he was escorted away from the aircraft when he failed to produce a boarding pass.
 
You'd be surprised at how much harder security pays attention to "sketchy" looking people though than they do to young children. Heck, I remember flying after 9/11, and they let me go through the check without taking off my shoes, and yet we almost missed our flight because my grandfather had some metal pins INSIDE OF HIS STOMACH that they were afraid he could use as a weapon.
 
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