Green Times

Greenpeace Monday caused a major security breach at London’s Heathrow airport when activists climbed to the top of a British Airways (BA) jet in a climate change protest.Protesters were seen unfurling a banner that read “Climate emergency - no third runway” over the Boeing 777’s tailfin after the plane landed on an internal flight from Manchester in north-west England.

A Greenpeace spokesman described the stunt at terminal one as an “incredible security breach,” saying the whole area was surrounded by police.

BA confirmed that four people, two women and two men, were involved in the incident and said that all of them had been removed and arrested by police.

It was a “dangerous and illegal” act that was being fully investigated with the help of the police, Britain’s national airline said in a statement.

Earlier one of the protesters, 27 year old Anna Jones, was quoted saying that she “standing on this plane because our planet and the people who live on it are in danger.”
“Climate change can be beaten but not by almost doubling the size of the world’s biggest airport,” said Jones, who added that she had never being involved in a similar protest before.

“The scientists say we only have 100 months to get emissions down, so we are here to draw a line in the sand and tell (Prime Minister) Gordon Brown his new runway must not and will not be built, she said.

The protest came two days before the end of a government consultation on the expansion of Heathrow airport, which Greenpeace claimed was being “fixed”.
Source: Islamic Republic News Agency