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April 24, 2014

Stowaway shows big gaps in airport security

  • The TSA said it has spent $80 billion on aviation security since its inception shortly after the 9/11 attacks, but that does not include perimeter security.
    • By JUSTIN PRITCHARD
    Associated Press

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — For all the tens of billions of dollars the nation has spent on screening passengers and their bags, few airports made a comparable investment to secure the airplanes.

    As the case of the San Jose stowaway shows, it did not take a sophisticated plan for a 15-year-old boy to spend about seven hours in what is supposed to be a secure area of Silicon Valley's main airport — much of it in a wheel well of the jet that took the teen to Hawaii.


     
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