The real story of REAL ID
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Starting May 7, you will have to have a REAL ID to board a U.S. domestic flight. But so much has changed in the 20 years since Real ID was first proposed, is REAL ID 20 years out-of-date?
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| 0:32.0 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:39.2 | This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi. |
| 0:42.6 | On the morning of September 11, 2001, flight attendant Betty Ong was working American Airlines Flight 11. |
| 0:50.9 | Barely 15 minutes after the aircraft left Boston Logan Airport, |
| 0:55.5 | Ong alerted ground-based authorities that something was very, very wrong. |
| 1:01.1 | The cockpit's not answering. Somebody stabbed in business class. |
| 1:05.0 | And I think there's mates that we can't breathe. |
| 1:07.9 | I don't know. I think we'll get in hijacked. |
| 1:10.7 | It's been almost a quarter century, |
| 1:13.0 | but hearing Ong's brave calm still gives me chills. |
| 1:19.4 | Well, shortly after Ong's alert, |
| 1:21.5 | someone from the cockpit began communicating with Boston ground control. |
| 1:26.5 | Is that American 11 trying to call? |
| 1:28.8 | Nobody. |
| 1:30.4 | We have some claims that stay quiet and it'll be okay. |
| 1:35.3 | We are turning to the airport. |
| 1:37.3 | And who's trying to call me here? |
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