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Man arrested after sneaking onto tarmac at San Jose airport
A suspect somehow got onto the tarmac at Mineta San Jose International Airport on Sunday, broke away from workers, and stole a maintenance vehicle before he was ultimately arrested at one of facility’s main passenger terminals, authorities said. (www.sfgate.com) Más...Don’t you just love it when those pompous guys who have to use insignificant letters after their name in a desperate effort to gain some recognition, get it all wrong!!
First of all, Tarmac is not a French construction company in any way! As a matter of fact, having been founded way over a 100 years ago in Wolverhampton near Birmingham, it’s as British as you can get.
Secondly, Tarmac is not a word that requires licensing, it’s a process to stabilise roads build according to the macadam principle.
Thirdly, tar-penetration macadam, known as Tarmac, is a road surfacing material used in many parts of the world, including the United States.
And finally, despite the pompous statement, using the phrase “tarmac” for airport aprons and runways, does NOT automatically “brands” the user to be a “want to-be” or journalist, as every educated persons knows that this term is also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, modern asphalt concrete, and airport aprons and runways.
First of all, Tarmac is not a French construction company in any way! As a matter of fact, having been founded way over a 100 years ago in Wolverhampton near Birmingham, it’s as British as you can get.
Secondly, Tarmac is not a word that requires licensing, it’s a process to stabilise roads build according to the macadam principle.
Thirdly, tar-penetration macadam, known as Tarmac, is a road surfacing material used in many parts of the world, including the United States.
And finally, despite the pompous statement, using the phrase “tarmac” for airport aprons and runways, does NOT automatically “brands” the user to be a “want to-be” or journalist, as every educated persons knows that this term is also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, modern asphalt concrete, and airport aprons and runways.
In addition...In the United States, the word ramp is an older term for an area where pre-flight activities were done; an apron was any area for parking and maintenance. Passenger gates are the main feature of a terminal ramp. The word apron is the ICAO and FAA terminology (the word ramp is not), so the word ramp is not used with this meaning outside the USA, Canada and the Philippines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_apron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_apron
I would wonder what makes this airport a continual target for security breach. Tis good they caught him but why was he there in the first place. Just bad luck or something else?
Medical marijuana?
Recently I had the experience of putting this training into action when I observed someone jump the barbed wire topped chain link fence about midnight as I was refueling the aircraft I had flown back from a mission.
Without going into details (great for a novel), it took less than three minutes after my phone call to "operations control" for the arrival of three police departments, an airport authority VP (whom I know) along with several others. The first responders apprehended the "suspect" I verbally kept at bay. (I have a CWP but had no need to use it as my authoritative voice sufficed.)
This incident apparently was the first known of such a breach. It was a terrific exercise of the system the airport authority put into place, and highlighted issues which airport authority planned to address at an ad hoc meeting in the morning.
The point: Users are expected to implement the security/safety procedures to the best of their ability, even if it is no more than contacting the airport authority which is on duty 24/7.