how did airlines get fooled into letting a nobody get onto airplanes, at airports, and how does that not violate all the DHS, TSA, and FAA security and procedures, for FOUR YEARS?

A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three U.S. carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years

Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pled not guilty

According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fraudulent employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. Court documents contained no explanation of why, in an industry focused on flight and airport safety, the airlines didn’t recognize the credentials as invalid.

https://apnews.com/article/fake-airline-pilot-fraud-58a2d18d66aabe462e11c3d72002c8ec

just when I think the govt can do a halfway decent job of something as easy as airline and airport security, having learned from the nose dive of it's utterly inept failure to stop the Covid from entering the USA in the ONE SIMPLE WAY by stopping any flights and passengers from China, the proof smacks me in the face that the govt can't learn from it's mistakes, can't realize how important airline security is (9-11 was the only example we needed or ever will need, of how any airliner can be a suicide bomber guided missile)

So WHY the eff isn't the GDMFing govt doing the ONE job it's got 8 alphabet agencies over-budgeted to do? High security enforcement and intel. Time for all of them to self check their commitment 

In 2023, an off-duty airline pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon Air flight said “I’m not OK” just before trying to cut the engines midflight.