Two similar stories like fatboyīs, seen yesterday in german tv:
1. Journos prepared a group of good looking young men and ladies with uniforms (completely faked ones, no reference to any existing airline) and the appropriate outlook (hairstyle of the ladies and so on) of an airliners crew.
They made it without any complications until the door of an aircraft (apprxmtl. half an hour before the right crew was exspected).
2. Journos looked out for an attractive (turkish, perfect german language knowledge) young girl.
They asked her to report her passport to be lost to german authorities; she did that.
They asked her to become employee with a an aircraft cleaning company (which should have found out immediately, that there is an employee with a lost/stolen passport, because they have to check that with the authorities).
She got an airport-passport. She got the (orange) jacket of newbees (yellow the others). She got free access to every aircraft until she (inspired by the journos) claimed the aircraft cleaning company has "written her name wrong on her airport-passport" (that was to initiate a new "Check out" of her passport, reported to be lost, because the first one obviously didnīt happen). The only result of that action was: her name on the new "checked" airport passport was written wronger than on the first one.
The journos let her demonstrate to be able to place plastic explosive material (they took this children toy stuff we used decades before, looking exactly like "semtex") in mobiles or even uncovered within the cabin. The journos booked flight on the aircraft and filmed, how they "found" the "bombs".
After four weeks the turkish girl left the company; comment of the journos at the end of the film "they didnīt know until the end of that employment what could have happened . . .".
I aggree with some anger about journos reporting about this complex industrie, but these reports are showing gaps in the security chain. Everyone who has responsability for these aspects within the industry should read and learn.