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The director of the Media Center, Salem Zahran, revealed “a danger at the airport similar to that which occurred in the port of Beirut.”
Zahran pointed out in an interview with the Al-Hadath program via the Al-Manar channel that there is a great danger of an explosion that could occur at the Beirut airport due to the leak of 84,000 liters of fuel used to refuel the planes, indicating that the material Filtrate was distributed under the airport building, which means that any friction of any kind was capable of completely destroying the area.
Zahran revealed several documents, including the opinion issued on September 1 by the head of the Audit Bureau, Judge Muhammad Badran, and the two books directed by the Minister of Public Works and Transport Michel Najjar to the President of the Republic and the government this morning.
And in the details:
On 2/24/2020, “Maroun Shammas”, contractor of the facilities dedicated to the supply of aircraft fuel, and his company in charge of taking care of the facilities and repairs at Rafic Hariri International Airport, registered a book in which he listed some of the operational risks 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.
This morning, September 3, the Minister of Public Works and Transportation sent two letters to the presidents of the republic and the government for processing.
And in the information that Zahran also revealed:
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!
And the two books of the Minister of Development supposedly reached the Republican Palace and the Serail Government. Make it a quick solution, away from the administrative “bureaucracy”.
Source: Al-Manar website
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