British airports are vulnerable one year after the attack on Glasgow Airport, warned a terrorism expert.
Security consultant Chris Yates said many of the changes put in place at Glasgow, northern Britain, after a jeep was driven into Glasgow's main terminal building and set on fire on June 30, had been copied at other airports around the world, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Friday.
Although some "weak points" in airport security have been addressed, others have remained.
While attack cars are not allowed to drop off passengers outside the main terminal building, which has been fitted with bomb-proof glass, more stringent security has been introduced for passengers inside the airport, said the report.
"Quite frankly in this day and age we don't know which direction the threats are coming from," said Yates, adding "it was always obvious that that was a potential avenue of danger."
He warned that as the first anniversary of the attack draws near, it is "entirely possible" that there could be another.
According to him, the strike at Glasgow Airport was a significant weak point for airports and there are very many others. He believes that Britain is not taking the threat of "aviation terrorism seriously enough".
"We have a long way to go before airports here in the UK are secure enough to prevent the prospect of another terrorist attack," he noted.
Source:Xinhua
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