by Jeff Price | Apr 14, 2014 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs
Are you paying too much for Airport Security measures? According to a recent study, yes. But, before you take a gigantic ax to your next years annual security budget, consider what the study assessed, and more importantly, what it didn’t. The study was published...
by Jeff Price | Apr 1, 2014 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
As it seems the search for Malaysian flight 370 is starting to fall farther back in the news cycle, and the growing trend that more experts are thinking this is a safety not a security incident (such as a fire or rapid decompression), there are a few recent reports...
by Jeff Price | Mar 15, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism
U.S. officials now say that manual intervention was involved in the missing flight and Malaysian officials are calling it a hijacking. Some aircraft systems continued to transmit information for several hours after the aircraft went off radar, which may indicate that...
by Jeff Price | Mar 10, 2014 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the subsequent finding that two of the passengers on board had stolen passports has stirred up plenty of speculation that terrorism could be involved. And it could. But, without additional information there are...
by Jeff Price | Jan 31, 2014 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
Throughout this 10-part series, I’ve addressed the question: Are We Safer since 9/11. When we were attacked on 9/11, I had already served several years in the aviation security industry and I felt I’d not done enough (as many of us did). Part of my...
by Jeff Price | Dec 29, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
Shortly after 9/11 a 16-year-old boy took a Cessna 172 and flew it into the side of the Bank of America building in Tampa, Florida. Since it was only six months since the terrorist attacks, the hue and cry went up from the largely uneducated (on aviation) public,...