CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Two people jumped fences that protect the runways and planes at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in 2015.
Airport officials revealed the incidents during an Associated Press investigation which documented at least 345 perimeter security breaches at 31 of the nation’s busiest airports between 2004 and mid-February. In that span, Charlotte had eight.
Despite some investments nationally to fortify the nation’s airfields, breaches remain as frequent as ever. In recent years, they’re happening about every 10 days at one of the airports AP studied.
Airport officials say outer defenses are strong and note no breach involved a known terrorist plot.
In Charlotte, a pilot saw a man walking on a taxiway in July - he had scaled a fence topped with razor wire. The other intruder jumped a fence in December.
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