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Indeed, security experts have long pointed out that the weak spots in aviation security are not the checks on passengers but the inadequate checks of cargo and the people who have airside access.

Reuters reported last week that US officials had singled out Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy devices as requiring particular attention during security checks on passengers for direct US-bound flights from Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

European transportation officials are strongly resisting inflicting airport-style security checks on passengers, like metal detectors and baggage searches, because they would represent a radical transformation of an open system and significantly drive up costs.

Countries around the world have already been bringing in their own checks on passengers travelling from the region, and the Foreign Office in Britain is expected to follow suit today.

Background checks on passengers and crew have turned up no likely suspects, and China has announced that it has unearthed nothing untoward in the profiles of the two-thirds of passengers who were Chinese.

Samantha Rigler, head of the Border Force Heathrow safeguarding and trafficking team, said the UK Border Agency was providing intelligence and doing additional checks on passengers in support of the operation.

The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said it was "likely that there were some British nationals" on board and that checks on passenger information were still being completed.

"We are now dealing with a segment of the population that is saying, 'We want you to be more involved with us, not less.' " On Wednesday night as the shift began, Captain Galfano faced two dozen of his officers at roll call and told them the new rules of their tour: pull over cabbies, check on passengers and hand out pamphlets that offer drivers advice on protecting themselves.

"We are also working with [airport operator] BAA on improving queue measurement, looking at securing staffing levels for the long-term and continued training and mentoring for contingency staff to ensure they carry out efficient and secure check on passengers".

South Korea and Taiwan both continued to expand radiation checks of  passengers arriving on airplanes from Japan.

The home secretary, Theresa May, is urgently considering contingency plans to avoid traffic queues up to five miles long building up at Dover when exit checks on all passengers are imposed on all British ports in three weeks time.