SMT X UNAUTHORIZED UNCOORD PENETRATION OF APCH CTL ADJACENT SECTOR AND CTR AIRSPACE. OPDEV.

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WHILE WORKING THE W RADAR POS AT BUF APCH; I TOOK CTL (RADAR) OF AN SMT X SW OF DKK VOR; WHOSE RTE OF FLT WAS DKK DIRECT ELM AND THEN FURTHER ROUTING TO THE SE. NORMALLY AN ACFT ON DKK TO ELM ROUTING WOULD BE IN BUF APCH AIRSPACE ONLY A SHORT TIME TRAVERSING BOTH W AND E RADAR AIRSPACE. IT IS COMMON PRACTICE FOR THE W RADAR CTLR TO MAINTAIN CTL OF ACFT ON THIS ROUTING AND PERFORM A POINT-OUT TO THE E RADAR CTLR AND HDOF THE ACFT TO THE CLEVELAND CTR BRADFORD SECTOR CTLR WHOSE AIRSPACE THE ACFT WOULD ENTER AFTER LEAVING BUF AIRSPACE. I DID NOT POINT-OUT THE ACFT TO THE E RADAR CTLR PRIOR TO IT ENTERING HIS AIRSPACE BECAUSE MY ATTN WAS DIVERTED TO ANOTHER ACFT NW OF BUF. SUBSEQUENTLY I WAS BEING RELIEVED OF THE W RADAR POS BY ANOTHER CTLR. IT IS MY STATEMENT THAT I ADVISED THE RELIEVING CTLR THAT THE ACFT NEEDED TO BE POINTED OUT TO THE E RADAR CTLR AND HANDED OFF TO THE CLEVELAND CTR CTLR; HOWEVER; THIS WAS NEVER RECORDED. SMT X TRAVERSED E RADAR AIRSPACE WITHOUT A POINTOUT AND ENTERED CLEVELAND CTR AIRSPACE SSE OF BUFFALO WITHOUT BEING HANDED OFF TO THE CLEVELAND CTR BRADFORD SECTOR CTLR. THE CLEVELAND CTR CTLR CALLED BUF APCH; E RADAR; VIA INTERPHONE TO ADVISE THE ACFT WAS IN RADAR CONTACT AND ASKED THAT THE ACFT BE SWITCHED TO HIM. AT NO TIME WAS THERE ANY SEPARATION LOSS BTWN SMT X AND ANY OTHER ACFT OR TERRAIN/OBSTRUCTIONS. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 215313. I WAS WORKING THE E RADAR SECTOR AND HAD LIGHT TO MODERATE TFC. THE ACFT WAS PROCEEDING FROM DUNKIRK VOR DIRECT TO ELMIRA VOR UNDER THE W RADARS CTL. I LOOKED DOWN AND NOTICED THAT THE ACFT HAD ENTERED MY CTL SECTOR WITHOUT A HDOF OR OTHER COORD. AT THIS TIME THE W RADAR CTLR WAS BUSY XMITTING TO SEVERAL ACFT AND I REALIZED THAT BY THE TIME THAT I COULD HAVE COORDINATED WITH W RADAR THE ACFT WOULD BE OUT OF MY SECTOR. I RETURNED TO CTLING OTHER ACFT AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER; I NOTICED THAT THE ACFT WAS A LITTLE N OF COURSE; BUT WOULD NOT BE A FACTOR FOR ANY OF MY TFC. THE W RADAR CTLR WAS ATTEMPTING TO GIVE A POS RELIEF BRIEFING AND I DID NOT SEE WHY COORDINATING THE FACT THAT I HAD A POINT OUT WOULD ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. 3 DAYS LATER I WAS ASKED TO WRITE A PERSONAL STATEMENT AND INFORMED THAT I WAS DECERTIFIED DUE TO AN OPERROR. WHAT IT BOILED DOWN TO WAS THAT IF I HAD USED THE LANDLINE TO COORD AND JUST SAID 3 LITTLE WORDS 'POINT OUT APPROVED' I WOULDN'T BE INVOLVED AT ALL. I LEARNED THAT YOU SHOULD ALWAYS PUT COORD ON A RECORDED LINE NO MATTER HOW INSIGNIFICANT THAT IT MAY SEEM.