安檢形同虛設? 英國11歲男孩無護照無機票搭機出國
Frequent flyers will know only too well how rigorous airport security checks can be.
常年乘坐飛機的乘客們都該知道機場的安檢有多嚴格。So it is all the more shocking that a runaway schoolboy managed to evade them entirely – and fly to Italy with no passport or boarding pass.
在沒護照沒登機牌的情況下，一個離家出走的少年居然躲過重重安檢順利飛抵意大利，這實在令人震驚不已。Liam Corcoran, 11, slipped away from his mother, caught a bus to the airport three miles away and boarded a plane bound for Rome without anyone questioning what he was doing.
11歲的Liam Corcoran 逃離母親的看管，乘了輛巴士就去了三公里外的機場。在機場沒有人對他進行任何詢問，他就順利登上了去往羅馬的飛機。
It was only when he began boasting that he had run away from home as the plane cruised over France that other passengers alerted cabin crew.
直到飛機已經飛抵法國上空，男孩開始吹噓自己逃家的“光榮史”時，其他乘客才發現這件事，並報告給了機組工作人員。As well as causing several hours of panic for Liam's mother Mary, 29, the astonishing breach of security at Manchester Airport just before the start of the Olympics raised urgent questions about Britain's border protection.
Liam29歲的母親Mary爲兒子心驚膽戰了數個小時。倫敦奧運在即，曼徹斯特機場卻出現如此的安檢失誤，讓人們不得不對英國的入境安全產生了質疑。Yesterday Liam's father, Aaron Fort, 34, spoke of his disbelief that no one at the airport had questioned what an unaccompanied child was doing there.
昨天Liam的父親，34歲的Aaron Fort 公開表示，一個無人照管的孩子能在機場隨意行動，這樣的機場實在令人難以置信。He revealed that Liam – described as "a handful" who has run away in the past – had never been on a plane before and does not own a passport.
他還說，雖然Liam從前就是個逃家老手，可他從沒逃上過飛機，他們也從沒給兒子辦過護照。Mr Fort said: "Liam told me the first time he knew he was in a bit of trouble is when the plane started to rise off the ground. He just did what the stewardesses told him and sat in his seat with his belt on."
“飛機一起飛，Liam就知道他有麻煩了。他只能聽空乘小姐的話，乖乖坐在椅子上，繫好安全帶。”In total, Liam escaped five checks: security staff should have checked his boarding pass before screening, Jet2 staff should have taken his boarding pass and checked his passport at the gate, flight crew in the cabin should have checked his boarding pass stub, and a passenger headcount should have been carried out before take-off.
Liam一共逃過了5次航空檢查：登機前的安檢，門禁前的護照檢查，機票檢查，登機後機組人員檢查機票存根，還有飛機起飛前，機組人員應該要清點艙內人數。Earlier this month police criticised security at Manchester Airport after an armed robbery suspect being flown back to the UK for questioning escaped through a luggage chute.
其實本月早些時候，警方就已批評過曼徹斯特機場的安檢失誤。當時一名持械劫犯被遣返回英接受問詢，期間差點從機場的行李滑道逃之夭夭。
