Originally Posted by
nonsense
It's absolutely a security incident if it has revealed a way that a passenger can avoid flying on the same aircraft as their luggage!
That wouldn’t happen though unless the Swiss cheese lines up and that is pretty unlikely.
A passenger boards a flight they aren’t ticketed for and checks in a piece of luggage for the flight they were booked on. That bag wouldn’t make it on to the flight because that passenger hasn’t boarded that flight.
The situation isn’t good, it shouldn’t happen and someone messed up but the security risk is often over exaggerated.