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Old Feb 16, 2012, 11:18 am
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Originally Posted by Artur
The FA told me, when asked, that the computers went down during the boarding process, which I suppose is going to be the party line.
I highly doubt that, because five minutes before departure, a fellow passenger was handed a boarding pass to J.
The boarding process encompasses a much longer time period than "5 minutes to departure." It's possible that someone mistakenly boarded the flight during that glitch. Seems pretty unlikely for both those things to happen together, but then this is quite a rare occurrence, as you mention.

Nothing scary about it. As FWAAA notes, the passenger would have been screened either way, and the likelihood of a "malicious person" (whatever that means) just happening to hit this loophole is remote.
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