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Thursday, July 26, 2012

A British boy of 11 years without making a flight ticket or passport


Manchester Airport (England) said Wednesday it launched an investigation into the case of an 11-year-old boarded a plane to Rome, bypassing all security controls, without having a ticket or documentation. Liam Corcoran went smoothly metal detectors and mixed with a family at the time of entering an aircraft of the British low cost carrier Jet2.com, said the Manchester Evening News. Neither the airport staff and the company realized that traveling without ID or with the corresponding passage. Other passengers realized mid-flight that the child was alone and alerted the cabin crew. The boy stood on the aircraft to land on widened to the Rome Fiumicino, before returning to Manchester (North West), where he waited for his mother. "This extremely serious matter was the subject of an urgent investigation by airport officials and airline," said a spokesman for the flight terminal. "It is clear that the papers were not properly checked at the security checkpoints and boarding gate," he said, but also clarified that "the safety of aircraft and passengers at no time was compromised." Several staff members from Manchester airport and the company Jet2.com were suspended from their jobs while doing research. This incident took place at a time waiting for some two million people in the UK for the London Olympics, which officially open on Friday night.

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