Air travelers flouted TSA regulations by shirking airport security more than 300 times last year, a stunning rise in security breaches that the air travel safety agency is desperately trying to stem. Those breaches included incidents where passengers shimmied through unmanned scanners, bowled through secured exits, doubled back through “no re-entry” zones, blew past ID checkpoints, and boarded planes with no ticket. “It is a larger problem than we realized,” TSA spokesman R. Carter Langston admitted. But most instances, Langston said, “do not seem to have evil intent.” They’re the result of lost patience, accidents, or forgetfulness—the most common breaches were when passengers re-entered secured areas through exit-only lanes, often because they forgot something as they passed through security. It’s unclear why there’s such an uptick in these incidents now, though Langston believes a “change in behavior” post-pandemic is a contributing factor. And TSA agents aren’t law enforcement, so they can’t physically apprehend an offender. Instead, they must report the incident and send law enforcement after the culprit.