One of the biggest potential terrorist threats to aircraft is from the crew.
You'd have to be a very brave manager to gloss over security concerns related to pilots.
Regardless of whether he planned a suicide attack himself, he got caught just by pure luck - some associates of him acted in a stupid way in a case totally unrelated to his career at BA. He wouldn't have needed any helpers to commit a suicide attack himself!
How many more similar Samir Jamaluddins are out there? Guys, who are probably innocent but still cannot be 100% trusted?
Since there is finally some recognition that crews in the cockpit are a potential terrorist threat, it is time to do something about it, for example by stationing an armed security officer in the cockpit. It is just ridiculous that paying passengers have to endure all sorts of humuliation, having their possessions confiscated, sometimes unable to queue for toilets, while the biggest security threat is already in the front of the plane, having airplane controls, the fire axe and the airplane with lots of fuel at their disposal. You don't even need two terrorists in the cockpit to destroy a skyscraper, just one terrorist without any special items brought aboard would suffice. A single point of failure
The solution shouldn't be to ban this one randomly caught guy from flying. Rather, it should be impossible for this guy (or any single guy) to bring down a plane even if he keeps flying. Just like planes are engineered in a way that they don't go down when a single engine fails.
Sadly, pilot unions who usually pretend to care about the safety of air travel turn a blind eye on this issue, preferring their own little comfort to the safety of passengers paying their wages.
As for this guy, I hope he gets full reinstatement, and since BA considers allowing him to fly too risky for
them, they should put him on paid leave till the end of his career.