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Comment on Plane crashes into office building by Bobby Sutton

Bobby Sutton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:02:56 +0000

I think that some sort of security increase should take place to secure the general aviation side of the airports. As a person that has worked in general aviation at a FBO facility, security is minimum and small air craft don’t require a key to start them and most of the time the air craft is unlock. I am just saying if Wal-Mart has a security truck driving around 24/7 why doesn’t a airport?

Comment on Suicide by Small Plane by Bobby Sutton

Bobby Sutton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:00:05 +0000

This is a topic that really is interesting general aviation might not be a terrorist target point but It could defiantly be someone’s suicide idea. This last week there was a man that went to is old place of work looking for is ex-wife at a business in Albuquerque NM and shot his self , his ex-wife, and several others. It is hard to think that there are people that are willing to do these kind of acts of violence, but in general aviation there really isn’t all that much security and if you wanted to you could steel a small air plain very easily and fly it in to someone’s house or a business in a suicide scenario.

Comment on Another threat, another box by Bobby Sutton

Bobby Sutton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:56:53 +0000

I agree with this, each time a breach happens with security at a airport we get a new box to put something else in, we are already to the point of putting are shoes in a box what is next? The idea of a whole body imagers (WBI) sounds great, but like you said they are 3x as big and take 10X as long to scan people, sounds like a manufacturing company is trying to get rich. I think that we need to remember that the scanning equipment is only as good as the screener. The race of coming up with a piece of equipment that can profile with out profiling is still on.

Comment on Profiling by james

james — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:17:00 +0000

First of all, that was freaking hilarious……. I agree with you on the profiling. I believe that it belongs in the hands of the highly skilled officers on what to look for. If we had no training in profiling, then technically all the terrorist would have to do is send in the decoy Al Quaeda guy with the turban, long beard, thong sandals, carrying a pool cue carryon bag with him, while the really light skinned terrorist in a 3 piece suit snuck on by with their briefcases filled with all kinds of goods. I am guilty of it, but in no way am I the first to say that I agree with it. It was how I was raised, and I think that this is something that belongs to the professionals, and at that level I strongly agree and feel very comfortable with them setting the bar for profiling.

Comment on Suicide by Small Plane by james

james — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:08:23 +0000

Its unfortunate that people feel the need to go out with a bang to get a point across that only they themselves feel our pertinent to everyone. I do however agree that it is not a huge enought threat to worry about every pilot in the GA field. Training is where we need to invest our money in because security measures are just that. They are to see at what level a security threat people are, but there is no machine strong enough to know that John Doe’s wife left him, and that he just got fired from his job, and never set up a savings for retirement.