Security concerns soar as stowaway evades airport checks twice

Travelling by aeroplane involves going through security checks. Even the most rigorous checks can be ineffective. A young Norwegian who managed to board a plane without a ticket yet with a knife in his pocket demonstrated this.

The situation at the Munich airport shows that security checks and implemented safeguards are not always practical. This was proven by the young Norwegian who managed to fly twice without a ticket but with a knife in his pocket. According to "Rzeczpospolita," the man, encouraged by the success of his two previous air escapades, attempted to fly as a stowaway for the third time, this time from Hamburg. He was caught only because all the seats on the plane were taken.

It is unknown how the man passed through the gates, which opened after scanning a special code from the boarding pass. Authorities suspect that the Norwegian might have stayed very close to a passenger with such a card and slipped in behind them before the gate closed. These are only assumptions that a police investigation could confirm.

Another mystery is how the man managed to get a knife onto the plane, which should have been detected during the screening. The young Norwegian will be held accountable for being in an airport area where he had no right to be and for travelling without a ticket.

After these incidents, Munich airport authorities are trying to determine why the security checks failed and are planning to tighten the existing procedures. Among other measures, new cameras are expected to be installed. The procedures at the airport are also being investigated by the police.

The incident with the stowaway passenger did not escape the attention of Andreas Rosskopf, the chairman of the German police union. In a comment to Bild, he said: "in my entire career, I have never had a case like this."

Climate activists are cutting fences and gluing themselves to runways, and now a man without a ticket is flying around Europe — added Rosskopf.