Four Greenpeace protesters embarrassed the airports owner BAA yesterday by evading security staff to unfurl a banner on top of a British Airways jet.
The campaigners boarded a flight from Manchester to Heathrow and clambered on top of the Airbus A320 after passengers had disembarked. They were arrested by police after an hour-long standoff during which they held up a banner reading “Climate emergency – no 3rd runway”, referring to a public consultation on expanding Heathrow which closes tomorrow.
– The Guardian
Terrorists could smuggle the components needed to make a bomb on to a plane in Britain despite restrictions on taking liquids on board, it was claimed.
A television documentary team said it had made a bomb by mixing a series of odourless and colourless chemicals that could be brought into an aircraft by passengers.
The liquids that were mixed to make the explosive cocktail were all contained in bottles of less than 100ml, which is the limit enforced at most airports around the world at present and was introduced shortly after British authorities thwarted an alleged attempt to blow up transatlantic aircraft in August 2006.
– The Telegraph
