MD identified as "weak point" in Airport Security

The Manchester Evening News carries a report “Weak link in airport security” and quotes Chris Yates, aviation spokesman for Janes Publications:

"It's always been a weak point in security at Manchester. Any point in the perimeter where vehicles are required to gain access and people need to gain access to the apron is always going to be a weak link.”

“This doesn't necessarily mean Manchester Airport failed in their security. It just means this man managed to walk in where most of the traffic was going through."

A simple soul might say that if a member of the public breached the perimeter and got near to aircraft with a bag the first principle of security had failed.

"The security point (ie a gate which has been there with an entrance onto a busy road for 20 years or more) that we are talking about has been undergoing quite a lot of new construction recently and that I think will help improve things."

"But obviously if we are talking about bog-standard barriers across the road stopping people that's a weak link and perhaps we should be looking at a double-barrier system for vehicles where they drive through one barrier and then they are held where they can be checked and after that there is a second barrier."

So don’t worry if he had been driving a lorry we would have stopped him …… well when the work is finished.

Airport MD John (Pollyanna) Spooner boasted:

"The security at Manchester Airport is tighter than it has ever been. It is working better than ever.

"This incident provides a model example of how airport security is supposed to work. At no time was he not being pursued by security officers and then by police officers."

So that’s all right then. He simply ,” … ran across the taxiway and got close to two Continental aircraft preparing to fly to New York, and an Astraeus aircraft about to jet off to Naples.” …. Presumably if he had got any nearer they would have had to “shoot to kill”.

Well this citizen thinks the money spent on security at Manchester Airport is in really safe hands - I mean who would imagine some mad guy would run through an open gate ?