Recently this month, A Somali immigrant attempted to hijack a New Zealand domestic flight. The Air New Zealand flight from Blenheim to Wellington was carrying a 33 year old woman who attempted to hijack the jet with demands to fly her to Australia. The woman stabbed a pilot on the hand and another pilot was injured on the foot. One passenger suffered a minor hand injury cause by the attacker.

After the attacker was subdued, the severely injured pilots made emergency calls reporting that she said there were two bombs and landed on a Christchurch airport. Army and police bomb squads closed the airport for three hours and inspected the plane but found nothing.

The woman, who was not identified by name, was charged with attempted hijacking, wounding and other offenses and ordered to appear in court.

The hijack attempt was a result of lenient security of the airline and admits that:

“Air New Zealand was reviewing security measures nationally following the incident. In New Zealand, passengers and their luggage on short-haul flights are not subject to security checks. This incident has naturally given us cause to conduct a thorough review of our safety and security systems and processes on regional domestic flights.”

If such leniency occurs in every airports and airlines, another “9/11” incident will happen again without any wonders will not surprise us anymore. Deaths and injuries of many will only fall under statistics and not mere tragedy to mourn for.