by Jeff Price | Jan 18, 2015 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, General Aviation Airport Security
I was recently on a panel on CNN discussing the latest al Qaeda threat to aviation. In their online publication, Inspire magazine al Qaeda outlined a strategy for how to make a bomb that would get past a screening checkpoint at an airport. In that same week, I fielded...
by Jeff Price | Oct 7, 2013 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Unaccompanied Minor
News is breaking today about a nine-year-old boy who slipped through security and made it on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. You will soon hear that the individual slipped through “airport” security but that is not entirely accurate. I am careful...
by Jeff Price | Dec 27, 2012 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Overview of Aviation Security
12th Annual AAAE Annual Aviation Security Summit and looking towards the threats in 2013 Hyatt Regency Crystal City Alexandria, VA The annual aviation security summit brought out a good line of speakers this year, featuring decision makers and policy makers, not...
by Jeff Price | Oct 26, 2012 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, General Aviation Airport Security
Several recent airport perimeter security breaches have brought the issue into the public spotlight. Normally, such scrutiny is reserved for the “front door,” of aviation security, which is the screening checkpoint and largely the domain of the TSA. The “back door,”...
by Jeff Price | Jul 25, 2012 | Air Cargo, Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
Blogging live from the Colorado Airport Operators Association, Annual Conference, 2012, Vail, Colorado (paraphrasing as necessary) Douglas Hoffsass – Assoc. Administrator, Office of the Administrator, TSA The Right Reverend Hoffsass continues his nationwide tour...
by Jeff Price | Jul 18, 2012 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Airport Security
Recently, several sewing needles turned up in catered meals on Delta Airlines. While there are public health and safety concerns, and the FBI is investigating, it begs the question, just how secure are the catering facilities that bring food onto commercial aircraft....
