Woman in Her 20s Successfully Boards Plane Wearing Airline Uniform While Posing as Cabin Crew

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According to Financial News, a woman who disguised herself as an airline flight attendant and boarded a plane had her true identity exposed and is now under police investigation.
According to local media including AsiaOne on the 14th, Indonesian woman Khairun Nisa, 23, boarded Batik Air flight ID7058 on the 6th (local time), departing from Palembang and bound for Jakarta.
Wearing the airline’s uniform, she had her hair neatly tied up, carried a suitcase bearing the airline logo, and even had an ID card. She presented a legitimately purchased ticket, passed through security screening, and after boarding the aircraft, was not stopped for some time.
However, during the flight, actual cabin crew members noticed something odd about Nisa’s uniform design, and their suspicions grew when she was unable to properly answer basic questions about flight attendant duties.
In particular, her ID card turned out to be an old design that had been discontinued about 15 years earlier. The crew immediately reported her to the airline’s security team, and Nisa was taken into custody by police for questioning as soon as the plane arrived in Jakarta.
Nisa initially claimed she was an employee of Batik Air, but eventually admitted that she had been posing as a flight attendant.
During questioning, Nisa stated that she had once applied to be a Batik Air flight attendant but failed the recruitment process, yet lied to her family that she had been hired.
Nisa said, “I left home wearing the uniform so that my family would believe I had been hired as a flight attendant, but I ran out of time to change clothes and ended up boarding the plane like that,” adding, “I sincerely apologize to the airline.”
The media outlet pointed out, “The fact that someone wearing a cabin crew uniform was able to gain access to an aircraft is a serious security issue,” adding, “It highlights the potential threat to aviation security posed by people impersonating insiders.”
However, the airport from which she departed and Batik Air stated, “She boarded after going through the same procedures as any regular passenger and did not access any restricted areas,” adding, “This incident does not indicate a loophole in the security system.”
moon@fnnews.com Moon Young-jin Reporter