I think you guys are getting paranoid, up there in the real world and obviously some of you have never worked in the third world.
If and I stress the word “IF” this was a terrorist type thing then I can think of a lot more countries with a lot more aircraft scattered around them that are closer to Europe and North America.
Check out the African forum and read into what has been said and “may” get an understanding about what happened.
The reality of what goes on is these places will astound some of you in the oversensitive, tree hugging nandy pandy, nimby, ‘free’ world.
Airside security does not exist to those that are determined, think of the shoe shine kids and hangar rats everywhere in Africa, the families that were living in the grass beside the runway in manila, and the millions of places out there that jets go to where the runway is simply a wide pedestrian crossing built through the middle of town.
You don’t need to ask what goes on, you don’t publicise that stuff in public forum people like to sit back in there chairs and say ooohh, isn’t that bad, doesn’t the world need to fix that.
Gimme a break, in southwest Africa alone billions of dollars go missing every year from government coffers, more than enough than enough to run the whole WFP program for ever.
The day that the WFP are making food drops by Herc and 727 in France is that day that people will understand the third world having never been there.
Ok rant over, wake up and smell the coffee, it has nothing to do with osama bin hiding.
