Okay GUV,
I thought you had experience with airlines but apparently not.
I am an airline pilot. Everything I do is governed by my company operating manual. It is MORE restrictive than the FARs. If it is in the book it is the LAW, nothing less for operating an aircraft on American Airlines AOC.
Regardless of how it happens, if a person does not have the required paperwork as stated in the company ops manual I cannot let that person board the aircraft, nor can I amend his paperwork just because I feel like it.
Regardless of how he ended up on another aircraft, their are very strict procedures for allowing armed pax to travel in a commercial jet. Among other things they exist to prevent an agent from "Going Postal" and jumping on another aircraft to cause mayhem.
You may not like it, and I know you enjoy slamming pilots every chance you get, but we cannot violate a company ops manual. Doing that is a violation of FEDERAL LAW. Once the agent got rolled over, he needed new paper work. I am sorry if he was too lazy, or uninformed or whatever else, but he can't simply line out parts of the form and turn them in.
The forms are multiple carbon copies that are scattered all over the planet. So he dropped one copy before he left for the airport, dropped another one at the ticket counter etc. YOU in all your wisdom think he should just line out something in the last 2 or 3 copies he is holding on to and think that would be ok. Well its not, maybe thats okay in Africa. In the USA that would be fraud.
Get a grip Guv. This is being spun to appease muslims so that we can show how we are not attacking a religion or a race. This guy screwed up.
Cheers
Wino