San Jose airport to get nearly $3.5 million to beef up security

Monday, August 24, 2015
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The Mineta San Jose International Airport is about to get millions of dollars to beef up perimeter security.

The Federal Aviation Administration is giving the airport nearly $3.5 million to make it harder for people to sneak onto airport property.
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In five incidents over the past year, people have managed to get into supposedly secured areas of the airport.

In the most famous incident, a teenager managed to get onto the tarmac, hide in the wheel well of a jumbo jet and survive a flight from San Jose to Hawaii.
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