Airport security breaches

5/25/2016

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Chicago Daily Herald (May 25) -- O'Hare International Airport wasn't the worst in the nation for intruders penetrating security fences and gates in a 13-year study of 30 major U.S. airports. With about 26,000 commercial flights daily in the U.S., 345 breaches "is not good but it's not that bad either," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign aviation security expert Sheldon H. Jacobson said. "It's very possible they're catching 99 percent and a small percentage is getting through. There are layers of security beyond the perimeter fencing ... and no one reports the attempts that are stopped."


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This story was published May 25, 2016.