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Cairo: kid manages to reach aircraft bypassing security checks

Cairo, Egypt - "I wanted to take an up close look of the planes"

A few weeks ago the episode of Liam Corcoran, the 11-yo boy from Manchester who managed to board on a Rome-bound aircraft caused an uproar (AVIONEWS), and generated a lot of concern about the airport security topic. The story repeated on Thursday 23/08/2012, with really similar elements, at Cairo International Airport (Egypt), Africa's second busiest hub in terms of passenger traffic after Johannesburg's. Mohamed...

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Rome, Italy, 08/24/2012 14:12
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