Passengers forced through SIX checks in Government iPad air clampdown ‘mix with unchecked passengers’
A MAJOR security flaw in the Government’s ban on electronic devices on planes has been revealed at the main airport targeted by Theresa May’s embargo.
Passengers on UK-bound flights from six countries cannot travel with tablets or laptops in their hand luggage after Islamic terrorists developed bombs disguised as batteries.
Travellers at Istanbul Ataturk Airport destined for London Heathrow must clear six separate security checkpoints.
But once through they mingle in the gate area with all other passengers, who have faced no extra checks, .
Ataturk Airport has the highest number of passengers of all affected and is considered to be the most important target of the ban.
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The embargo started at the weekend and it is mandatory for all airlines flying from Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia to Britain.
Only smartphones measuring less than 16cm by 9.3cm are exempt and all other devices must be placed in the hold.
The policy is based on intelligence of an al-Quaeda plot to bring down an aircraft within consumer electronics.
The new bomb-making technology is believed to have already spread rapidly among a raft of major Islamic terrorist organisations, senior sources have revealed.
Security chiefs are working on the assumption that it has already fallen into the hands of ISIS in Syria and Libya, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and al-Shabaab in Somalia.