Silence. On the track only the engines of Ryanair's Boing 737 roaring towards Valencia. The waters of the Pond of Santa Gilla rest restlessly on the eastern border of the international airport of Cagliari. The fence is as imposing as that concertina of barbed wire tangled on the slopes of cameras and sensors. Here, on the day of the disclosure by our newspaper of the explosive Security Report on the Cagliari airport, the desert reigns. It is Sunday in via dei Trasvolatori, the operational headquarters of Sogaer.
Heavy papers
Public holiday, despite the publication of the devastating content of the exclusive documents of the Central Inspection Nucleus of ENAC, the National Civil Aviation Authority, delegated by the President of the Council of Ministers for the security of the main airport of the island. Heavy papers such as the accusations made against the security system managed directly by the top management of the management company and its associate, which operates under a housing regime, or rather performs the service without delegation to external companies. That report that we have come into possession of puts the direct responsibility of the top management against the wall who, for months and months, have known well that technological equipment fundamental for safety was totally out of order. For six months, those imposing fencing networks, a good 4 and a half kilometers, had been devoid of any intrusion alarm and no cameras on several fronts were working. A very serious security vulnerability, for which nothing was done until the men of the Central Inspection Nucleus burst onto the track with the delegation not to look anyone in the face. After all, the safety of an airport cannot be delegated to lightness or personal sympathy.
A six-month gap
Six months that weigh like a boulder on the management of Sogaer, the company leader in the management of safety equipment, starting with tenders and maintenance. Certainly very few were aware of that secret report that Sogaer's top management tried in every possible way to lock up, even fearing the existence of "classified" news and therefore to be classified. They had good reason to keep everything secret. An eloquent silence functional to prevent even a single draft from leaking out on those four days in which the ENAC inspectors had turned the airport upside down, from the runway to the entire passenger and baggage access chain. A blitz that had transformed the airport into a sieve, precisely due to the lack of maintenance and efficiency of the technological equipment available to security. The staff, trained over decades and with great experience in the field, lacked the technological support that could only be guaranteed with timely investments and a serious maintenance plan.
