Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
What an appallingly useless system if it picks up a death threat on the airport wifi yet allows pax to board and flight to depart and only hours later launches interceptors.
Utterly ridiculous!
Heads need to roll in the organisation of that travesty of a 'system'.
Hmmm.
Think about it - you're sitting in the departure lounge killing time before your flight, and you use the airport's free wifi to post a message on social media that (apparently) contains a trigger word. That (supposedly) is automatically detected by the airport's wifi monitoring.
Short of stopping all flights and interrogating all departing passengers to see who it was, and what flight they are on, how is the airport going to identify the culprit? It may well be that all they have at that stage is an IP address, possibly a social media ID and maybe an anonymous Gmail or Hotmail address used to register for the wifi.
I think you'll find that a fair amount of detective work has to be done on the "travesty of a system" before the individual can be identified, and then of course that ID has to be cross-checked against all the airlines' passenger lists for departing flights.
Personally, I think Gatwick is to be commended, rather than criticised, for its action.