A potential security breach at Auckland Airport this afternoon resulted in passengers on a flight being rescreened.<\/p>\n
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said an aircraft had to return to the gate at the domestic terminal after a passenger entered the secure departure area through an exit door before boarding<\/p>\n
As a precaution, passengers were disembarked and rescreened, and the aircraft was searched before being returned to service.<\/p>\n
Some flights were delayed while these procedures were completed.<\/p>\n
“This incident was not the result of a failure in Aviation Security screening processes. Initial enquiries indicate the passenger gained access to the secure area by using an exit door,” a CAA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“Working alongside airport and airline staff, Aviation Security officers needed to make sure the area was secure before normal operations could resume.<\/p>\n
“The safety and security of passengers remains our priority.”<\/p>\n
An Auckland Airport spokesperson said passengers from one domestic flight were rescreened by Aviation Security after a potential security breach.<\/p>\n
“No other flights were impacted. Safety and security are our priority and we thank travellers for their patience,” they said.<\/p>\n
“The matter was referred to New Zealand Police.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential security breach at Auckland Airport this afternoon resulted in passengers on a flight being rescreened. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-567814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}