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Old Apr 30, 2012 | 12:30 pm
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Originally Posted by speedbird66
I'm sure that the immigration halls at airports have been designed with this eventuality in mind so that they can maintain control of the border even in the event of an emergency evacuation: the expedient may well be as simple as the emergency exits directing people airside rather than landside.
I wonder. I was at T1 (landslide) when the IRA bomb went off in the multi-stiry car park in 197* ... one deck below my car in the car park. We were evacuated to the dispersal area to the left of T1 ... But I guess we were "kettled" effectively, even though we were airside.

But realistically, a major incident would be chaotic, and I could easily envisage the whole thing breaking down. Are there really enough staff to control events?
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