Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was hit by another security scare Saturday, when a DoorDash delivery driver was spotted by an air traffic controller driving around restricted zones. The driver said it was an innocent mistake, and police opted against filing charges, but the fact that he drove for miles around interior and restricted roads without being spotted raises security concerns. “This could have been really, really bad,” former air traffic controller Robert Mark told CBS News. Police said the 36-year-old “accidentally drove into an unauthorized secured area within O’Hare Airport.” DoorDash said they’re looking into the circumstances. “Imagine if this had been at night in the darkness, I mean, where no one noticed this person,” Mark, now working as a business jet pilot, added. The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile alerts to hit Chicago airports over the past six months. In late February, a Southwest Airlines pilot had to abort a landing at Midway International Airport after a business jet began to taxi across the runway. At O’Hare, a passenger was ejected from a United Airlines flight for carrying a concealed firearm in April. On Christmas Eve last year, a stowaway was found dead in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound United plane.
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