{"id":353322,"date":"2026-01-22T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ghost-in-cockpit-fake-pilot-bypassed-tsa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:30:18","slug":"the-ghost-in-the-cockpit-how-a-fake-pilot-bypassed-tsa-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=353322","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Ghost\u2019 In The Cockpit: How A Fake Pilot Bypassed TSA For Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Toronto<\/a><\/span> man has been accused of posing as an airline pilot and an active flight attendant, not just managing to chase free flights, but having allegedly threaded himself into systems that are meant exclusively for industry professionals. Prosecutors have said that Dallas Pokornik used counterfeit employee credentials in order to book crew travel on multiple different US-based airlines and, at times, even asked for a cockpit jumpseat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The details might surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,629,643,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-pilots","category-tsa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t