Uncle analysis fail:
“It seems pretty far-fetched to me,’’ said Brown, questioning how he could have made it across the tarmac and onto a plane with the increased scrutiny of the TSA. “He would have to go into the terminal, find out where the plane is, and he’d have to go to TSA to get to where that plane is. Then he would have to orient himself once he got on the field. That’s just too much for a child to do.
1.Why go through the terminal at all? Why not just hop the fence?
2. Finding where airplanes are? How hard is that? An observant and articulate toddler could point them out, much less a 16 year-old.
3. Is the TSA actually watching aircraft on the tarmac/at the gate from the ground, or are they just shaking down grandmothers in wheelchairs at the security checkpoint? Never mind- I think I know the answer to that.
Yeah, the “uncle” is way off.
Here’s the plan:
1. Use the web to determine the flight number of a regular flight from your airport to Baltimore.
2. Check arrival gate for that flight on the airport website.
3. Hop fence, go to that gate.
What probably happened is he got disoriented and went to the wrong gate, or they switched gates, which happens occasionally. Then he ended up on a Boston flight instead of a Baltimore flight.