Man Accused of Flying from JFK to LA With Invalid Boarding Pass
Federal agents have arrested a Nigerian man after he successfully flew from New York to Los Angeles, and tried to fly from there to Atlanta, without having a valid boarding pass for either flight.
Investigators say Olajide Noibi boarded a Virgin America flight that left John F. Kennedy Airport last Friday.
Neither the airline nor the Transportation Security Administration noticed that his ID -- a University of Michigan student card -- did not match the name on his boarding pass. While the plane was in the air, flight attendants became suspicious because Noibi was sitting in a seat that the passenger list indicated was empty.
Noibi handed them a boarding pass that was for a flight the day before. Investigators say he told them he had missed that flight.
The flight crew then realized that his name didn't match the name on the boarding pass and that he was not on the passenger list. An FBI agent later discovered that the boarding pass Noibi presented had been printed out by a New York man who lost it in the subway on his way to Kennedy Airport for that same flight.
TSA needs to go.
