The fact that an elementary school student arrived in Jeju Island on a plane with his family's identification card has been controversial.
According to the police and aviation authorities, A (13) arrived at Jeju Airport after boarding the aircraft with her sister's ID card at Gwangju Airport on the afternoon of the 7th.
Yang A's family found Miss A in Jeju three days after reporting the disappearance.
The problem is that Ms. A boarded the plane with the stolen ID.
On domestic flights, infants and children under the age of 13 cannot ride alone without a guardian.
Identification before boarding a passenger plane is performed during the process of issuing tickets and boarding the aircraft.
Even if the ticket is issued at the unattended counter, the security officer directly contrasts the photo of the ID card with the real thing at the departure point before boarding, and Ms. A passed the whole process smoothly.
Ms. A left her house in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, went to Gwangju Airport without telling her whereabouts to her family, purchased a ticket without a guardian, and went through security screening without a guardian and boarded the plane to Jeju.
Police and airport authorities are investigating the exact details.
The poor security system at Gwangju Airport became a problem in July of this year as a woman in her twenties boarded an aircraft bound for Jeju using a friend's ID card.
(Photo = Yonhap News)