A Nigerian national sailed through without a blink-not even a ticket-within days of a dying, 95 year old American woman being detained and aggressively searched for 45 minutes by Obama personnel to guard against terrorism. He was only noticed by flight attendants after 2 passengers "complained about his body odor."...
6/30/11, "Authorities Investigate Security Breach At JFK After Man Flies To L.A. Without Ticket Or ID," CBS Local
"How could it happen?
The FBI is investigating a major security breach at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Someone boarded a plane with a college ID and a bogus boarding pass he found on a subway train, reports CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez.
What authorities say Nigerian national Olajide Noibi pulled off was thought by many travelers to be impossible.
(Download the full interview HERE)
“For what we’ve been going through since 9/11, it’s intolerable,” Astoria resident Nicholas Christopher said.
“It’s very scary, especially when there’s thousands of people who travel every day,” added Long Island resident Elana Kaminsky.
Law enforcement officials say big mistakes were made on Friday. Noibi passed Transportation Security Administration screening at JFK and boarded Virgin American Flight 415 bound for Los Angeles, with a University of Michigan ID and with an
- expired boarding pass that belonged to someone else.
New York Congressman Peter King, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, is calling for an internal investigation. He said we’re lucky this doesn’t appear to be a terror plot.
“I have never seen a case with so many unanswered questions. Nothing here adds up. All this can do is hurt morale. All this can do is hurt public confidence. And the public should be mad. There’s no excuse for this,” Rep. King said.
“We’re talking about life and death here. This guy could have been a terrorist, could have been, God knows what he could’ve been, so if he’s testing the system, he certainly found out a lot here.”
The security breach wasn’t noticed until the Virgin American flight was off the ground.
Flight attendants realized Noibi was sitting in a seat that should have been vacant and after checking the name on his boarding pass they found it didn’t match his ID. Investigators said the boarding pass belonged to a man who said it went missing from his pocket on his way to the airport on June 23.
In a statement the airline said it “…at no time felt there was any threat to the security of the flight. The airline self-reported this incident to the authorities as soon as
- the issue was identified onboard.”
“It’s really bad. It’s really dangerous for everybody,” traveler Andrea Benavides said.
The FBI said Noibi stayed in L.A. for four days and then tried to pull the same stunt on a Delta flight to Atlanta, again, with no valid ID or boarding pass.
But security officers caught him with 10 expired boarding passes in his possession and he was taken into custody.
- He was charged with being a stowaway,
but not under any terror or security laws. He faces a federal court hearing Saturday.
“Let’s find out where the mistake came from and let’s fix it,” Scarsdale resident Chris Peckett.
WCBS 880′s Peter Haskell: They Used To Check IDs At The GateThe TSA confirmed Noibi was screened by its agents, but would not comment further on the ongoing investigation.
“Every passenger that passes through security checkpoints is subject to many layers of security including thorough physical screening at the checkpoint,” TSA spokesman Greg Soule said. “TSA’s review of this matter indicates that
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7/2/11, "TSA, Virgin America agents failed to catch passenger without valid pass," Daily Hampshire Gazette, Melville, NY
"Noibi's presence on the flight only became known after two other passengers complained about his body odor, the FBI said. Then the flight crew noticed Noibi was in Seat 3E, which was supposed to be empty."...
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The daughter of the dying 95 year old woman burst into tears at how her mother was being treated. The crying outburst was considered a suspicious action by the TSA thereby forcing the daughter to be patted down:
6/28/11, "TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman in Florida," CNN
"Weber said the two were traveling June 18 from northwest Florida to Michigan, so her mother could move in with relatives before eventually going to an assisted living facility.
"My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia," Weber said. "She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel."
While going through security, the 95-year-old was taken by a TSA officer into a glassed-in area, where a pat-down was performed, Weber said. An agent told Weber "they felt something suspicious on (her mother's) leg and they couldn't determine what it was" -- leading them to take her into a private, closed room.
Soon after, Weber said, a TSA agent came out and told her that her mother's Depend undergarment was "wet and it was firm, and they couldn't check it thoroughly." The mother and daughter left to find a bathroom, at the TSA officer's request, to take off the adult diaper.Weber said she burst into tears during the ordeal, forcing her own pat-down and other measures in accordance with TSA protocol. But she said her mother, a nurse for 65 years, "was very calm" despite being bothered by the fact that she had to go through the airport without underwear.
Eventually, Weber said she asked for her mother to be whisked away to the boarding gate without her, because their plane was scheduled to leave in two minutes and
- Weber was still going through security."...
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6/25/11, "Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search," Northwest Florida Daily News
Woman was detained for 45 minutes.
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