Thursday, August 9, 1973
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AIRPORT SECURITY
Note to Editors:
The Airport Security Committee has advised
the Director of Civil Aviation that access to the
aircraft parking apron should be restricted only
to those people who are essential to the operation of aircraft, carriage of freight, passengers and
mail, etc., and to no others. This recommendation
has been accepted.
It follows from this that press photographers will no longer be allowed onto the tarmac or in any
other restricted areas of Kai Tak Airport, and the
two G.I.S. officers who have been posted to Kai Tak
will now be withdrawn.
Some committee members of the Hong Kong
Journalist Association have already been informed
of this decision and the reasons for it have been
explained to them. Any inconvenience this may cause
to journalists is much regretted but the whole question
of airport security is, of course, of paramount importance.
Special arrangements will, of course, be made
for special circumstances, but as a general rule it
will be no longer possible for photographers to cover
arrivals or departures in any restricted part of the
airport.
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