Reporters from the Houston Chronicle are continuing their driving tour of sensitive area facilities. Last month they wandered freely around the Port of Houston and the perimeter of the South Texas Project nuclear plant. Now they've gotten too close to areas of Houston's two major airports. Where will they probe next?
While automobiles entering the grounds of Houston's two major airports are randomly searched, and the flying public faces tighter terminal screenings during the nation's heightened terror alert, sensitive areas along the edges of Bush Intercontinental and Hobby airports may well be vulnerable.Posted by Alan at January 8, 2004 12:05 PMEarlier this week, a security industry consultant, who asked not to be identified for fear of financial retribution, took two Chronicle journalists on a tour of perimeters of both airports where, in most cases, only a chain link fence topped with barbed wire separated the group from the airports' aircraft operations area.
Of specific concern, said the consultant, are areas on the perimeter of Bush Intercontinental Airport where commercial cargo and in-flight food preparation companies are located, as well as areas near private hangars at Hobby Airport. Additionally, the consultant also was alarmed by the apparently small amount of security outside the Federal Aviation Administration's control tower at Bush.
via the Houston Chronicle