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Air carrier flight attendant reported lax security procedures by boarding agent at ewr.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1021373 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201206 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | EWR.Airport |
| State Reference | NJ |
| Environment | |
| Light | Dawn |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A319 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Flight Attendant (On Duty) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Security Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
When checking in with the gate agent in the morning in newark; the agent was late and told us he didn't know how to get into [the computer]. Agent let us in the jetway without checking our identification's! Our purser asked if he wasn't going to check; how did he know we weren't terrorists? He said we didn't look like them. After telling the first officer; he made a point of making us all come off with our luggage so he could write our names down.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Flight Attendant reported lax security procedures by boarding agent at EWR.
Narrative: When checking in with the gate agent in the morning in Newark; the agent was late and told us he didn't know how to get into [the computer]. Agent let us in the jetway without checking our ID's! Our Purser asked if he wasn't going to check; how did he know we weren't terrorists? He said we didn't look like them. After telling the First Officer; he made a point of making us all come off with our luggage so he could write our names down.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.