>Craig Sturt arrived at Britain’s busiest airport on December 23 and tailgated other passengers through security and passport control, boarding a British Airways flight.
>The unemployed 46-year-old was able to take a free seat after another passenger had missed the flight but it finally caught up with him when JFK Airport Officials accosted him.
He literally just walked through security and onto the plane, and no-one stopped him lmao.
Some people at Heathrow are getting sacked.
As funny as this sounds. This is a huge security breach.
What a joke this is, just walk straight on to a plane and no one bothered to stop him.
Now this is the YouTube Vlog I want to fucking see
My local rural airport has better security than that. Passport and Boarding Pass checked 3 times. Security, departure gate entry and again before boarding.
He just walked through and nobody stopped him, how is that possible, is the crazy security level all just performative?
But, you know, don’t bring that hair gel that’s over 100ml and make sure it all fits into a small plastic bag
You’d think they would have automated the boarding gates by now so this kind of thing would be far more difficult
If ..he was a terrorist he would fly to Mexico. Pay a cartel dude $300 and get into America ..through a HOLE in the fence. Wait. An all inclusive bus will pick you up and take you to N.Y. directly. You will have a hotel room and can even beat up the local PD!! It’s a terror cell DREAM.
I can’t fathom how this happened. You have to scan a boarding pass multiple times AND get a passport check at the gate. How’d he sneak past?!
Someone thinks they’re Ben Richards from The Running Man
Man should be given a job in security…..highlighting flaws and areas of weakness. Jeez, most of us get pulled for wearing a belt or carrying an unauthorised toothpaste or something.
Yeah bit worrying.
I thought you can’t be through the first gates without a boarding pass?
It’s situational awareness. It’s a heightened sense of being able to see where everyone is looking and where they are going to look. It’s quickly studying the method and logic and understanding how to slip outside of that.
I’ve done it a few times just for shits and giggles. I was in Turkey last year for the CL final. The security was set up as follows. You go through the first barriers then a line of Police officers search everyone and confiscated any drinks and put them on a table at the side. The second barrier was the turn style then you were met with stadium staff ready to search you. I knew none of this before hand.
I got through the first barrier. Two rows of 4 police picking off people as they line up and walk through. No real order as to who picks off who. Gap on the left and side where the table is. Police officer chatting up some pretty girl a bit behind the table. I move to left walk round Police and grab myself a bottle of water off the table and just walk though. No one noticed. Why would they? Bottle goes down back of pants. Through turn style. This is where you think to yourself these are stadium staff and they assume you have already been searched. The trick now is to have a laugh with them make the search kinky. They laugh, you laugh quick pat and off you go. The trick is to be noticeable only when it works in your favour.
Getting though an airport is probably something I wouldn’t try but I can imagine if you join a large family it could be quite easy to not only get through passport control but also onto a flight. You would just need to be able to make one side think you were part of them and the other you aren’t. I guess if you tied your shoelace at the right time it would make it a lot easier.
Having worked for British Airways and doing that job for years it is absolutely crazy Someone could do that because even if the gate agents were asleep at the gate how did he get through security without a boarding pass and passport the security agent just as much to blame.
Surely, the headline should be “the CAA looking to dish out fines for a huge security breach at Heathrow” or “Homeoffice slams Heathrow for huge security breach”.
But no, blame the individual…
healthrow felt very understaffed last time i flew. Everything is self service. It feels sketchy
Welp, at least he went through a legal port of entry, unlike the millions of illegals invading the US right now. He should’ve claimed asylum.
Well since there is no “passport control” when departing the UK I’m not putting much weight behind the other parts of the story either..
Worth noting…
**THIS GUY IS STILL ON THE RUN AFTER BEING HANDED BACK TO UK POLICE…he escaped again! UK Security/policing truely are a joke.**
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>Craig Sturt arrived at Britain’s busiest airport on December 23 and tailgated other passengers through security and passport control, boarding a British Airways flight.
>The unemployed 46-year-old was able to take a free seat after another passenger had missed the flight but it finally caught up with him when JFK Airport Officials accosted him.
He literally just walked through security and onto the plane, and no-one stopped him lmao.
Some people at Heathrow are getting sacked.
As funny as this sounds. This is a huge security breach.
What a joke this is, just walk straight on to a plane and no one bothered to stop him.
Now this is the YouTube Vlog I want to fucking see
My local rural airport has better security than that. Passport and Boarding Pass checked 3 times. Security, departure gate entry and again before boarding.
He just walked through and nobody stopped him, how is that possible, is the crazy security level all just performative?
But, you know, don’t bring that hair gel that’s over 100ml and make sure it all fits into a small plastic bag
You’d think they would have automated the boarding gates by now so this kind of thing would be far more difficult
If ..he was a terrorist he would fly to Mexico. Pay a cartel dude $300 and get into America ..through a HOLE in the fence. Wait. An all inclusive bus will pick you up and take you to N.Y. directly. You will have a hotel room and can even beat up the local PD!! It’s a terror cell DREAM.
I can’t fathom how this happened. You have to scan a boarding pass multiple times AND get a passport check at the gate. How’d he sneak past?!
Someone thinks they’re Ben Richards from The Running Man
Man should be given a job in security…..highlighting flaws and areas of weakness. Jeez, most of us get pulled for wearing a belt or carrying an unauthorised toothpaste or something.
Yeah bit worrying.
I thought you can’t be through the first gates without a boarding pass?
It’s situational awareness. It’s a heightened sense of being able to see where everyone is looking and where they are going to look. It’s quickly studying the method and logic and understanding how to slip outside of that.
I’ve done it a few times just for shits and giggles. I was in Turkey last year for the CL final. The security was set up as follows. You go through the first barriers then a line of Police officers search everyone and confiscated any drinks and put them on a table at the side. The second barrier was the turn style then you were met with stadium staff ready to search you. I knew none of this before hand.
I got through the first barrier. Two rows of 4 police picking off people as they line up and walk through. No real order as to who picks off who. Gap on the left and side where the table is. Police officer chatting up some pretty girl a bit behind the table. I move to left walk round Police and grab myself a bottle of water off the table and just walk though. No one noticed. Why would they? Bottle goes down back of pants. Through turn style. This is where you think to yourself these are stadium staff and they assume you have already been searched. The trick now is to have a laugh with them make the search kinky. They laugh, you laugh quick pat and off you go. The trick is to be noticeable only when it works in your favour.
Getting though an airport is probably something I wouldn’t try but I can imagine if you join a large family it could be quite easy to not only get through passport control but also onto a flight. You would just need to be able to make one side think you were part of them and the other you aren’t. I guess if you tied your shoelace at the right time it would make it a lot easier.
Having worked for British Airways and doing that job for years it is absolutely crazy Someone could do that because even if the gate agents were asleep at the gate how did he get through security without a boarding pass and passport the security agent just as much to blame.
Surely, the headline should be “the CAA looking to dish out fines for a huge security breach at Heathrow” or “Homeoffice slams Heathrow for huge security breach”.
But no, blame the individual…
healthrow felt very understaffed last time i flew. Everything is self service. It feels sketchy
Welp, at least he went through a legal port of entry, unlike the millions of illegals invading the US right now. He should’ve claimed asylum.
Well since there is no “passport control” when departing the UK I’m not putting much weight behind the other parts of the story either..
Worth noting…
**THIS GUY IS STILL ON THE RUN AFTER BEING HANDED BACK TO UK POLICE…he escaped again! UK Security/policing truely are a joke.**