by Jeff Price | Feb 22, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
Is Twitter to be blamed for the failure of screeners to detect a gun, five times through a TSA checkpoint? A TSA employee testing the Advanced Imaging Technology (i.e. body scanner) at DFW was able to smuggle a firearm through the AIT’s on five separate...
by Jeff Price | Dec 27, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening, Policies and Procedures
This story is getting a lot of play this week. I’ve heard that this pilot has been called everything from a hero to a whistleblower, and his attorney is equally enjoying his own celebrity. Just recently his attorney offered to make his client available to...
by Jeff Price | Nov 4, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
If you’re not aware of the ramifications of TSA’s new pat-down policy, click here. If the link is still active, what you likely saw was a TSA screener appearing to conduct a pat down search of a a small boy. Yea, I know it looks like he’s feeling him...
by Jeff Price | Aug 31, 2010 | Aviation Security, Christmas Day Bomber, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening
Remember when the Emergency Broadcast System would do those tests on TV? They still do from time to time, but without the threat of being annihilated by Soviet ballistic missiles, we don’t seem then much anymore. However, terrorists and bad guys continue to...
by Jeff Price | Aug 15, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats
It seems that everyone has been quick to play down the journey of three underage travelers who decided on their own to fly from Florida to Tennessee (click here for article). Aviation experts, the airlines and TSA have all said that protocols were not violated. And,...
by Jeff Price | Apr 17, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Introduction to Screening, Policies and Procedures, The Role of Government
I guess the first interesting question is, why are light sabers on the prohibited items list? Now, I was there in 1977 when Star Wars first came out, and I’ve seen all the movies plenty of times over — and as much as I’d love to have a light saber,...
