by Jeff Price | Jan 11, 2023 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Current Affairs
I received a number of inquiries about the FAA stop to all flights due to a system outage related to Notice to Air Mission. Here is the scoop about NOTAM and why it is a critical system. A NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions), is essentially a message board system where...
by Jeff Price | Jul 13, 2021 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
“Watch this,” I told my two boys who were up with me on Sunday morning, July 11th, as Richard Branson took off for his historic spaceflight. “You are about to see history being made.” Branson’s flight to the US recognized Karmin line...
by Jeff Price | Dec 4, 2019 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
On July 17 of this year, police responded to a drone with fireworks attached to it discovered on top of a building in downtown Los Angeles. Further details have not been released about the incident, but it does represent just one of the many threats drone operations...
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 | Aug 30, 2018 | Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security
The Aviation Security Act of 2016 requires TSA to improve the eligibility requirements and increase the disqualifying criminal offenses for personnel working at an airport, who have unescorted access to certain airport security areas. Unfortunately, this doesn’t...
