Of interest, if a Sentry unit had been used here, all that would have happened was that the crew would have got out a couple of minutes earlier to watch the fire!! Sentry is not like the Terminator movies, with laser cannons!!
Again, have you lot not grasped...... THERE WAS NO HANGAR TO USE..........
I repeat, if you are based at an International Airport, you pay for your security from the airport authority. At a guess, that would be civilian security, I may be wrong.
The three minutes that you say 'would not impact on operations'. WRONG WRONG WRONG. The average pursuit is very short, SECONDS make a difference, that is why the aircraft sits semi-primed to go, It saves seconds. The number of times we are 30 seconds late for a job frustrates me, I wish there was a way of getting airborne faster.
Because of this incident, we now hangar our heli after every job, that my friends, is a large step backwards. But because of the embarrassment factor, the bosses dare not lose another airframe. Thats two-nil to the criminals.