After Friday's joy riding/ joy flying story, where an airport maintenance guy took off with a medium sized turbo prop airliner, did some really decent stunt flying and then crashed it, killing himself, the TV newsies have been talking about why aircraft ought to have doors that lock and ignition keys.
Back in USAF, none of our aircraft had either. And the two alert birds were armed with nuclear weapons back in those days. We had a good chain link fence around the flight line, with a couple of gates. We had armed guards, air police, on the gates and more of them on the alert hanger. Everyone had to have a security badge to get onto the flight line. And, with just a few exceptions, like company tech reps, everyone had to be wearing Air Force uniform.
So, hearing that a guy with apparently employment, a security clearance, and experience moving aircraft was able to take off with an aircraft is not surprising. We might take a look at how he obtained his security clearance, but once he did, he could easily do what he did.
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