Jasmine Loy- Airport security lapse leads to calls for more awareness

An airport security lapse has raised further concerns about complacency and what has been done to strengthen procedures.The passport mix-up - which allowed a man to fly out of the country using his son's passport – is the third security breach in six months. Mr Ang Heng Soon managed to check in for a Tiger Airways flight after mistakenly using his son's passport.The mistake was not spotted in spite of four levels of checks, enabling him to board his flight to Vietnam. He came back later after spotting his own error. The MP intends to raise this and other wider security concerns in Parliament. Law lecturer Mahdev Mohan at the Singapore Management University agreed. He added that while there cannot be a perfect system, officers need to be very aware of the wider implications of such human errors. While investigations are ongoing, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said scrutiny and supervision on the ground is being tightened.

Personal Response ;

I felt worried about it and thinks that the government should settle this kind of problem as soon as possible.