Security Incident at MAN This Morning

Sky_Captain · 23rd Sep 2005, 08:33

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angels · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:05

This news just coming into the City. It's hit sterling.

1DC · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:09

Amusing listening to sky news trying hard to make a bigger drama out of this.
Sky-Captain's report is far superior and has more facts.

G-CPTN · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:15

>Amusing listening to sky news trying hard to make a bigger drama out of this.
Sky-Captain's report is far superior and has more facts.

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And how much better to get it straight from the horse's mouth!

BBC reporter at MAN hinted at 'reports by a pilot on an Internet website - but we needed confirmation from the Police'
Big Aunty is watching you . . .

threemiles · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:15

"All surrounding aircraft and terminal gates were evacuated as an exclusion zone of 100metres was put in place. "

What happened to yours then?

G-CPTN · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:17

>"All surrounding aircraft and terminal gates were evacuated as an exclusion zone of 100metres was put in place. "

What happened to yours then?

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Suspect he was returned to barracks, from where he posted the news, otherwise he's got a Blackberry on the Flight Deck!

Norman Stanley Fletcher · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:20

Remarkable restraint by the police. They would have been entirely within their rights to put a couple of bullets in his head IMHO.

G-CPTN · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:24

>Remarkable restraint by the police. They would have been entirely within their rights to put a couple of bullets in his head IMHO.

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Dead men tell no tales, so interrogation would be pointless. Might just be a nutter (like the guy at Windsor Castle) or he could be the Missing Link - even Oso Been Missing himself . . .

They did apparently use a Tazer-gun.

MaxReheat · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:28

Not exactly a covert terrorist infiltration. Surprised he didn't go the whole hog and wear a Biffo the Bear suit.

Curious Pax · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:38

Hmmm - so while security in the terminal are looking for nail clippers, downstairs you can just walk round a barrier it seems. Someone's going to get heat for this. Fortunately from the description posted it sounds like a nutter who was late arriving for his flight and thought he would make up time by bypassing some of the formalities. Or he's a Sun reporter.....

Helen49 · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:39

So as devil's advocate, does this prove that security with all its costs and inconvenience is a waste of time because if there is a 'will' to access airside there is always a 'way'?

H49

Jordan D · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:48

Story being covered by BBC News here

Let's see what happens before making too much comment.

Jordan

MaxReheat · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:50

H49

Yes! We all know how ineffectual security measures are to the determined individual. Unfortunately the idiots in charge of security departments around the world (driven largely by the knee-jerkers in the US and the anally retentive Brits) won't admit that billions of pounds and squandered time is wasted all for the sake of a 'show' of security.

ILS27LEFT · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:51

I think we should start thinking of armed security officers at these barriers as they already do in other European Airports.
Heathrow is plenty of weak airside access points too... and if somebody wants to break through, even with a van, they can easily do it and nobody has got weapon to dissuade them!
A standard security unarmed guy positioned there is insufficient nowadays and does not represent a deterrent at all!
We should follow what they do in other European airports: each airport access should have a guy with a machine gun there.

We should also position (urgently) armed officers at each terminal entrance as it is too easy now to enter a Terminal and blow it up.
In other airports abroad each Terminal entrance is guarded by a heavily armed officer who can also ask for tickets and check identities if needed. This, at present, would make sense.

Sky_Captain · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:51

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TURIN · 23rd Sep 2005, 09:55

BBC radio now reporting that T1 & T2 are closed.

huckleberry58 · 23rd Sep 2005, 10:09

If I just heard correctly, Sky_Captain just got paraphrased on BBC and PPRuNe was called a 'reputable pilot's website'. Oh boy...

philip2004uk · 23rd Sep 2005, 10:10

Everyone is talking about security at airports, i dont think they'll do the airport and i think we should have more security measures in our shopping centres better yet put more money from the airport security into immigration and MI5 security surveilance even though they do do a great job we need more people to join these agencies.

Robert Vesco · 23rd Sep 2005, 10:11

BBC World just quoted Sky_Captain´s first post on this thread and said it came from a "reputable pilot´s website."

angels · 23rd Sep 2005, 10:13

Reuters now reporting MAN has re-opened.

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