Over one hundred gallons of acid spilled Monday inside a building at Ben Gurion International Airport located near Terminal 1, an auxilliary passenger terminal.
The 400-liter leak (about 105 gallons) was being monitored by experts in order to determine whether the chemicals were hazardous to the health of individuals in the area.
Firefighters and hazmat teams rushed to the scene of the spill to prevent the chemical leak from spreading and in case a mass evacuation of passengers from the terminal was necessary.
In May a large mock disaster exercise was held at Ben Gurion involving 1,000 workers of the airport, the defense and health ministries, the air force, police, emergency services and the IDF Home Front Command. The exercise, dubbed “Pelican,” centered on the hypothetical crash of a Boeing 747 carrying hundreds of passengers.
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