The Stowaway Teen: Signs of Warning for Global Aviation

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The latest incident, where a young teen managed to infiltrate an American airports and sneak aboard a plane, highlights the assessments made by Israeli experts concerning the lax security in most U.S. airports.

“They’re working according to dry, inflexible instructions despite the many dangerous vulnerabilities. We’ve warned them dozens of times against investing too much effort in the wrong places, but it didn’t help,” said an Israeli aviation security expert.

IHLS – Israel Homeland Security

As mentioned in the past, it turns out that supposedly sterile areas in most U.S. airports are easily accessible. The boy, according to assessments, sneaked through all layers of security in the San-Jose Airport, climbed aboard one of the planes and stayed there for five hours – reach Hawaii frozen and unconscious.