LHR Security: SCARY AGAIN!
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You will never ever achieve 100% security. There will always be a way. Most security is purely cosmetic and would never deter a determined terrorist attack, especially if it is of the suicide type. Only the average nutter might be deterred by security measures.
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as somebody who is regually a LHR/LGW spotter and who regually works airside at both security is a bit of a joke. Im a engineer and regually carry a tool case through security with little but x ray examination. I could easily pass a very sharp object to a pax via a drop off point.
Also short of putting a 15ft concrete wall round all airports the permiter fence is easily cut through and a 2 min sprint across the runways in the dark will give you easy acess to many airliners. Not to mention standing somehwre like Richmond or Windsor with a shoulder launched SAM.
There seems to be a great deal of security aimed at pax but this is not the weak point.
Also short of putting a 15ft concrete wall round all airports the permiter fence is easily cut through and a 2 min sprint across the runways in the dark will give you easy acess to many airliners. Not to mention standing somehwre like Richmond or Windsor with a shoulder launched SAM.
There seems to be a great deal of security aimed at pax but this is not the weak point.
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Is this the same Sky News which was strongly criticised for making up a montage of old shots about the firing of a missile from a ship during the start of the Iraq conflict?
The reporter was "sacked" and procedures "tightened".
The reporter was "sacked" and procedures "tightened".
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Mutt.
In future crews will be escorted from the aircraft so that they don't go into the wrong area.
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Mutt.
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