Are we Safer: Part 1 – Passenger and Carry On Screening
Every year about this time THE question comes around again – it’s been X number of years since 9/11 and Are We Safer? This is the first question that I always ask in my Aviation Security class at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Usually, about...TSA: Sleeping on the Job
A recent Government Accountability Office report (click here for the report) showed TSA personnel sleeping, showing up late to work, abusing leave time and other lesser infractions, but along with those they also found TSA personnel guilty of theft, and allowing...PreCheck to open for more people, and probably get slower
The original intent of PreCheck, TSA’s risk-based security strategy to allow known travelers alternative screening, meaning they can keep their liquids and laptops in their bag, their jacket and belts on and their dignity and efficiency in place, is about to...Managed Inclusion – putting dogs into the mix and adding numerous benefits
You may be noticing more canines in the screening checkpoint these days. This is part of TSA’s risk-based security strategy and is known as managed inclusion. Taking of advantage of airports with pre-check managed inclusion takes randomly selected passengers...TWA 800 back in the news
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...
