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Safety of air travellers is not protected
EDITOR,--The Scott report reveals "Whitehall secrecy and deceit...advancing the interests of major industrial concerns even when they mislead parliament and the public in doing so."1 Here is another example showing how industrial concerns have misled parliament and contributed to the deaths of 270 people.In 1985 an Air India jet was lost off Cork through a bomb in an unaccompanied suitcase. By late 1987 ICAO, the international civil aviation organisation, had mandated the "authorisation" of baggage in the hold.
The murder of my daughter and 269 others in December 1988 at Lockerbie was followed by a fatal accident inquiry which Baroness Thatcher refused to attend when cited as a witness. Government ministers prepared "PII certificates" to protect certain documents. The inquiry concluded that hold baggage authorisation was recognised as crucial to preventing such attacks. A Scott-type inquiry has repeatedly been refused.
In 1993 a Department of Transport press release proclaimed
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