Airport Security : Poor !!
How do you rate security system of nation? You might say not good dude. But if I ask you about security system of airport, you might say, it has to be good because it’s very sensitive issue. But Nepal’s airport’s security is also not very different than rest of the country. I have to say security at Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) is okay but other airports, hmmmmm…..
Last time I was in Bhairahawa. While returning back to Kathmandu, I went to airport. On entrance, policemen stopped me and asked me the reason to be there. I showed him my ticket and I went inside. At Bhairahawa Airport or any other airport, while entering to airport waiting building, your stuffs are checked but not with metal detector but with hands. If your hand bag is big enough and you can put dangerous arms between them, you can easily pass the checking. You are now inside the airport. While checking in i saw that trolleys full of bags are kept near the run-way (only difference is a door, which too was open). And the run-way was a door ahead which was open and no one was there to look after (you could easliy reach up to run-way without being noticed by others.).
After waiting sometime, someone turns up in your airplane check in point and you check in. And after sometime you plane arrives. You are asked to go inside for boarding plane. There’s another check but it too is with hands. They search your bag but not wholly. And even if you have different unauthorized stuffs in your bag, they let it bring with you. (I had only one bag where i had put flammable objects like body sprays etc. A policeman checking me pointed out that such things are not allowed. When i told me i didn’t know about it and I got only one hand bag, he let me take it with me.) A machine detector is lying there but of no use. I don’t know whether it needs repair or what, but it’s useless.
And now you are allowed to go further inside to waiting bench. After sometime, you board the plane. The cockpit is open and there are no doors. So if you have kept something inside your bag, you can easily overpower the pilot and hijack the plane. This is the situation of security at airport.
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June 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
after reading the above article, i may hesitate aqlittle bit to fly to ktm frm bhw.this is very serious issue and gov. must take it seriously to avoid any type of chaos