Bangladesh-born Rajib Karim, who worked at the airline’s call centre, volunteered for cabin crew duty when a strike loomed over Christmas, it was claimed.

The court heard the 30-year-ancient was committed to martyrdom and was accused of having a ‘clear intention and desire’ to die in the name of Islam.

He was also sending money to Yemen and Bangladesh to help ‘further’ terrorism attacks including suicide bombings, Westminster magistrates court was told.

He faces two counts of plotting suicide bombings and his own martyrdom and one charge of collecting money and transferring it to terrorist contacts overseas.

The offences – alleged to have originated in April 2006 – follow a police raid last month on BA’s call centre in Newcastle.

Karim, who worked as a computer software developer, was arrested and his home in the city searched.

Officers are continuing to sift through hundreds of files held on computers seized from his workplace and home.

Inquiries are also thought to be under way overseas to trace the others who could be involved in the alleged plot.

Karim will appear at the Ancient Bailey later this month. Three men in Slough, Berkshire, including another BA worker, who were arrested during the investigation have been released without charge.

It is not the first time an airport worker has been arrested under anti-terror laws. In 2007 Afghan Nazamuddin Mohammidy was arrested at Heathrow where he worked as a cleaner despite having been involved in the 2000 hijacking of a plane. He was not prosecuted but lost his job.

No up-to-date fire risk assessment was in place when the college – which uses the slogan ‘Unrivalled experience. Unequalled expertise’ – went up in smoke.

More than 60 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze last May which ruined 11 engines and causes more than £1.3million of hurt.

An inspector carried out a fire safety audit of the garage, which was ruined. The Fire Service College said a number of shortcomings were identified, including the absence of a current fire risk assessment, which have all since been place right.

It has been a legal requirement to do a ‘suitable and sufficient’ fire risk assessment on nearly every type of building in England and Wales since 2006.

‘It’s not exactly a new piece of legislation, so, yes, they should have done it,’ said architect and safety expert Sam Webb.

‘If anything, their standards should be higher than anyone’s. At the end of the day, all right, there were fire engines lost and they can be replaced.

When it is people that are lost then it’s a different matter.’ The college, in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, was in the process of completing up-to-date fire risk assessments when the fire occurred. It is one of the premier training centres, taking recruits from across the country and the globe.