Airport Perimeter Security Scrutinized After Utah Breach
After pilot and murder suspect Brian Hedglin stole an empty plane from a small Utah airport, crashing it into a parking lot and then shooting himself, concerns have been raised that the nation’s airports are not as secure as they should be.
According to an article from CBS News, Hedglin used a rug to scale a razor wire-topped security fence and small Utah airport in the middle of the night, slipping past security and boarding an idle, empty 50-passenger SkyWest Airlines jet and revving the engines. While the plane never left the ground, the situation was shocking enough.