Pictures: an airport hazard similar to the one that happened in the port of Beirut

This is what was said in the Zahran Post on its official Facebook page:

“After the port was bombed … a hazard at the airport …

Will the authorities act?

And in the details:

On February 24, 2020, Maroun Shammas, contractor for the aircraft fueling facilities, and his company in charge of taking care of the facilities and repairs at Rafic Hariri International Airport, recorded a book listing some of the risks operational events that occurred at the airport:

1- A leak from a hole in the main supply pipe resulted in a loss of 84,000 liters of jet fuel.

2- The main underground distribution room was dismantled and filled with residual fuel, which supplies the different branches of the network, which caused the airport to be suspended for 4 hours.

3- The aircraft supply hatch on boarding gate No. of the aircraft is completely blocked

4- Interruption of the control systems and electronic connection, which entails the cessation of control over the work of the station and endangers air navigation.

5- Damage to the main electrical panel of the station and the need to run the generators for 48 hours continuously, which cannot be guaranteed in the event of repetition on any next occasion.

And between the lack of funds allocated to the Ministry of Works and implicitly to the airport, and the “bureaucracy” of correspondence between ministries and departments, which we saw as an example in the ammonium nitrate vaporizer, he hung the book, along with the treatment and airport maintenance.

In fact, within a week, the Audit Office resolved the matter and, in the Office’s opinion, several points, including the correction in the method of maintenance and preservation of public money without financial and administrative impurities, emphasizing the need of a public tender.

However, the most dangerous thing that was mentioned in the Office’s reading is related to airport security, and this is what made it necessary to transfer it to higher authorities.

Consequently, the head of the Audit Office, Judge Muhammad Badran, sounded the alarm on September 1 and addressed the legislative, executive and judicial authorities about the seriousness of what is happening at the airport.

Also in the information:

The discriminatory lawyer, Judge Ghassan El-Khoury, sent the papers to the Public Finance Ministry to investigate the waste of public money, and the army command was informed to examine the risks referred to, provided that the necessary ones are taken.

Therefore, we hope that the opinion of the Audit Office, along with my book from the Minister of Public Works, will not be lost in the corridors of the departments, as it happened in the ammonium nitrate vapor.

Consequently, they addressed the gaps. What is expressed by the opinion of the Audit Office about what happened before and what can lead to it later at the airport, is very dangerous!

It is assumed that the two books of the Minister of Development reached the Republican Palace and the Serail Government … Let it be a quick solution, away from the administrative “bureaucracy”.