Airport Security Lapses Revealed On PBS Exposé

By consumerist.com October 31, 2007

The latest episode of PBS’s Exposé shows local new investigators uncovering three different chasms in airport security. At one airport, a graveyard shift security guard lets in employees and delivery guys without doing a security screening, how easy it is to walk up to a regional commercial jet, and a woman with a IED taped to her leg getting past the TSA. The full show is available for free online.

EPISODE 219:Security Theater [PBS]

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  1. ZekeDMS says:
    October 31, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    I wish I had more to say than “Well, duh.”

    I had a freaking travel bag full of silverware(forks and knives. Yes, the metal kind)whick I took through the airport security almost every day unknowingly(normally a travel bag, but it served as a work bag then, and my daily equipment was heavy enough to make me not notice other stuff), not stopped once in four months. The only time I was ever stopped was because a soda can looked strange on the x-ray.

  2. Papa Midnight says:
    October 31, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    Heh, shit. I love the political run around they got. Classic.

  3. Papa Midnight says:
    October 31, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    This actually reminds me of the time I accidentally got a pocket knife through security at Ontario Airport in Ontario, California. By the time I realized I was carrying it (IN PLAIN SIGHT), I was already through security. I surrendered it on principle after I realized I had it, but I should mention… this was at 9:00 PM while TSA was still on duty.

  4. LucyInTheSky says:
    November 3, 2007 at 12:59 am

    this is like big brother’s dorky weakling of a younger sibling.

  5. KJones says:
    November 6, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    I’ve seen things for sale in the duty free shops *after* clearing customs that were banned on flights, like scissors and pocket knives. I could have bought them and walked onto a plane without being checked.

    As well, I’ve had airport security wave me in carrying a cup of coffee (I was willing to finish and then go in). When I got to the metal detector, they wouldn’t let me carry it through, but it didn’t go through any detection, I just put down *outside* of the detectors and then picked it up afterward. I could have entered the airport and gotten on a plane with a grenade hidden in the coffee and nobody would have stopped me. That’s frightening.