India's major airports unsafe: Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

Kolkata: Next time you board a flight after going through stringent airport checks, do not believe the aircraft is sanitised and safe. Security at the cargo entry point is lax.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has found that while passenger entry points at the domestic terminals of the country’s major airports are under almost impenetrable security cover, the cargo points allow more or less free access to anyone. Cargo points at international terminals have relatively better security.
Inspectors from the BCAS — an agency under the civil aviation ministry — walked into supposedly high-security cargo zones of some airports in the early hours without being asked for identity cards. Sealed cargo is loaded on toaircraft directly from these zones.
15/05/10 Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports May 2010, Safety May 2010