“Unnamed airline administratpr lets the perp board without a passport.”
We don’t know that. This story (if true) says he tried to get on without one. The story doesn’t say whether in the end he gave them his passport in order to get on.
He was refered to a manager. And then he was given a boarding pass by who? The janitor?
Also their luggage wasn’t likely vetted by security but likely went straight to the plane in the last minutes befoe departure.
How else would a bomb be found in luggage at Detroit?