Agents at an airport in the central Russian city of Perm failed to stop a woman who carried explosives aboard a commercial airliner after clearing checkpoints using a fake passport issued in Chechnya as part of an airport security test, a newspaper said Friday. Airport authorities had been warned in advance by the FSB security service that such a test would be conducted, but were not told when it would take place, the daily Kommersant said, quoting an FSB spokeswoman, Marina Porfireva.
None of the airport's screening measures, including a metal detector, an X-ray baggage scanner and a sniffer dog, managed to prevent the woman, herself an FSB agent, from boarding the plane scheduled to fly to Moscow, the report said, providing no further explanation.