by Jeff Price | Jul 1, 2013 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
I have been asked about a new movie is coming out about TWA 800, the flight that crashed off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996. Conspiracy theorists have long speculated that the aircraft was downed by a surface-to-air missile, instead of the NTSB explanation...
by Jeff Price | Jun 19, 2013 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism
Recently, a former airline employee won a $1.4 million judgment against Air Wisconsin Airlines for reporting him as a potential security risk. The Colorado Supreme Court denied Air Wisconsin immunity from the defamation lawsuit, which is now headed to the US Supreme...
by Jeff Price | Jun 9, 2013 | Aviation Security, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
The TSA announced they are reversing their earlier policy that would have allowed small pocket knives, hockey sticks and a few other items back in the cabin of the aircraft. Regardless of the right or wrong’ness of this step, it seems Pistole is learning that...
by Jeff Price | Jun 1, 2013 | Aviation Security, Introduction to Screening
The airport industry is finding out what it’s like to be the Washington Generals, the perennial opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters, forever destined to play their hearts out but ultimately lose. In the latest round, the Globetrotters (TSA), and the airport...
by Jeff Price | May 20, 2013 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
TSA’s recent announcement that they are transferring the guarding of the exit lanes (from the sterile area) from their control to airport control, has caused a lot of heartache throughout the industry, both in terms of policy-making and policy-implemetation. The...
by Jeff Price | May 4, 2013 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism
I’ve heard that you should give bad news first so here it comes. The Boston Marathon attack is not the last attack. Here’s even worse news, there are only so many security procedures that we can do to prevent the next attack. Was the Boston bombing a...