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Offline Jacqui Harvey

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Bomb on Turkey Flight
« on: March 30, 2011, 08:49:28 AM »
Quite worrying to hear this morning that someone put a fake bomb on a flight to Istanbul, albeit a cargo flight.  It seems that UPS who sent the parcel are allowed by the Airlines to security check their own parcels.  This parcel was suppose to carry a wedding cake.
It seems  that 60% of cargo in passenger planes is freight from such companies as UPS.  Lets hope the security gets tightened up now.  As giving out this information will only help the terrorists :(



Offline DianeT

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Bomb on Turkey Flight
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 23:09:54 PM »
It is very worrying that this could have happened for real, especially as had it been a real bomb and it had of gone off at one of the airports I am sure there would have been a large number of casualties!! let's just hope lessons have been learnt!!

Offline gunna

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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 16:55:17 PM »
Most of us who travel to turkey travel with charter airlines such as thomas cook, easyjet, etc, these airlines are not allowed to carry any kind of cargo on any flight without having the the correct licence from the CAA, and currently none of them do.

Easyjet have been looking at the subject of cargo for some time should they be granted a cargo licence it would also allow them to use the airlines IATA payment system, carry other airlines cargo as well as its own and tap into the business sector although some business persons already use easyjet they do miss out on the bulk of the business sector

having said that the amount of cargo that is shipped around the world is very high and that in turn has its risks I can tell you cargo does not have the same kind of checking that you and I have to go thru at the airport although they do xray cargo but it is a bit hit and miss and this just do not apply to UPS it also applies to BA, United, Delta etc we in the UK just have a no care to its clients.

   
 





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