by Jeff Price | Sep 18, 2019 | Aviation Security
The recent report of an American Airlines employee sabotaging a flight in order to obtain more overtime represents the biggest threat to commercial aviation. Not only do you have an employee with access to an airport, but also to an airliner, with a legitimate reason...
by Jeff Price | Jul 11, 2019 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
Article Originally Published in the State Aviation Journal May, 2019 Why have gun seizures at US airports gone up by 357% over the past ten years? In 2008, TSA 926 seized guns at screening checkpoints. Last year they seized 4,239 and the rate continues to increase. If...
by Jeff Price | Jun 24, 2019 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Passenger and Baggage Screening
The Toronto airport again has played a role in aviation security. It was 134years ago, June 23, 1985, when the deadliest airline bombing in history took down Air India Flight 182. The flight had departed from Vancouver, made a stopover in Canada en route to London,...
by Jeff Price | Apr 19, 2019 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism
Would you rather live life blissfully unaware of the hazards around you, but exceedingly happy and fulfilled, unafraid and experiencing all that life has to offer, only to be killed suddenly in some sort of violent attack, or would you rather live your entire natural...
by Jeff Price | Jan 18, 2019 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, Passenger and Baggage Screening
As the shutdown continues with no end in sight, some people are speculating that TSA screeners may go on strike. Or, that more TSA workers will continue to walk off the job, have “blue flu,” or find an employer that can make a payroll, resulting in massive air system...
by Jeff Price | Dec 4, 2018 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
Today, the aviation industry screens passengers and their carry-on bags essentially the same way it did in the early 1970s. While detection technologies have changed to better detect threats and move people through the checkpoint, training and performance standards...