Airport officials, TSA to talk prevention following security breach, attack

KUTV (April 3) -- Salt Lake City International Airport officials, police and the Transportation Security Administration plan to meet Thursday to talk about potential changes after a security breach over the weekend. Salt Lake City police say a man punched a passenger repeatedly and stole his cellphone. An airport spokeswoman says the man somehow got past the TSA agents who check IDs and boarding passes. Sheldon Jacobson, a professor of computational science and engineering at Illinois who studies aviation security, says if TSA had a hole in its security system, the agency would not want to release that information. “The fact that problems resulted from it are just a wake-up call that we have to be cautious and aware that these situations can occur,” Jacobson says.