Boy boards Monarch flight at Gatwick without tickets
An investigation is under way after a 12-year-old boy without a ticket managed to board a Monarch flight at Gatwick during the heightened security alert.
He was discovered on Monday’s 0600 Monarch flight to Lisbon before it took off.
According to BBC reports, the boy is believed to have run away from a care home in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
Airports operator BAA said it was confident the boy had been thoroughly searched and had passed through the full security screening process.
It said a full investigation was being carried out in conjunction with the police and Monarch Airlines.
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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