A South African woman was left traumatised and humiliated when she was forced to strip down to her jeans after airline staff incorrectly accused her of carrying a bomb.
Alta Klein is still reeling from the incident, which she said occurred for "no proper reason" and without explanation. The girlfriend of a prominent South African soccer player, Klein was shocked by the strip search and is considering legal action against El Al Israel Airlines, who hired the security staff who allegedly degraded her.
Klein was checking into her El Al flight to Tel Aviv, departing from OR Tambo International Airport last Thursday when her handbag set off the scanners alarm.
El Al Airlines general manager Roz Bukris said the airline would not give a statement on its security, but would be conducting an investigation into the incident. "We have yet to receive an official complaint," she added.
Klein claims she was kept waiting for an hour while airline staff searched and scanned her handbag, camera and cellphone thoroughly before she was led into an office with a small dressing room.
She said she noticed her handbag in an X-ray machine and was told to take a seat. Two women, who emerged from a back room, told her to take her shoes and jacket off, which she did.
"Straight after that they came back out and told me that they needed to do a strip search to check my clothes and body. I asked what it was for. I had asked the same question throughout my waiting and they always had the same answer: 'We have detected a bomb'," she recalled.
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