The suspected terror attack on the terminal at Glasgow Airport today focused attention on the safety of passengers and others “landside”.

The Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece may have suffered a sudden loss of cabin pressure at high altitude, causing temperatures and oxygen levels to plummet and leaving everyone aboard suffocating and freezing to death, experts said yesterday.

THE pilots in the Cypriot airliner disaster could have become incapacitated in seconds, aviation experts said yesterday.

POLICE in Cyprus raided the offices of Helios Airways in the city of Larnaca yesterday, a day after one of the company’s passenger jets slammed into a mountainside near Athens, killing all 121 people on board.

A MISSILE attack on a passenger plane is something the aviation industry has long feared, experts said yesterday.

A missile attack on a passenger plane is something the aviation industry has long feared, experts said today.

A recent rule change on how close planes are allowed to fly to each other will come under the spotlight following the mid-air crash over Germany, aviation experts said today.

The recovery of the ‘‘black box’’ flight recorders from the hijacked planes could provide vital clues to the nature of the devastating terrorist attacks in America.

In the blood-stained history of terrorism there has never been a day as horrifying as September 11, 2001.