UK: Airport staff let hundreds of passengers skip checks on passports
3 April 2012Hundreds of passengers walked into the UK without having their passports checked after immigration systems failed at a major airport.
Witnesses told how police and border officials stood back and watched as up to 200 travellers ‘angered at being delayed for three hours’ decided to walk straight through immigration control.
The delays were caused by a computer power failure which prevented all new arrivals from having their passports electronically scanned.
