Airport security

Stepping off the Avensa flight onto the bright and cool gray terminal, Maria Venegas, accompanied by her husband and one-year old baby, drops her bags to the floor and shouts, “Hello Miami, we are here and we are going to stay!” This was the scene on a warm May day in 1996 as my parents and I arrived to the United States with three months’ worth of money and an incomparable determination to build a new life. I do not remember the moment, nor was I even remotely aware of what was going on in my…

As I stepped off the airplane into the warm Haitian airport, my brain was filled with a whirlwind of emotions. I was excited, ecstatic to see the sweet Haitian children and their smiles again. My heart had been missing the country of Haiti since I left the summer before. As we departed the airport and stepped softly onto Haitian soil, I became anxious. I looked around at all the mountains surrounding the airport and was reminded of the beautiful brokenness of this country. I was flooded with…

The Houston runway was quickly disappearing beneath me, the plane ascending, leaving my stomach dismantled on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was truly on a plane, by myself, headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable, and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side…

As we accessed the airplane, we got greeted by radiant stewardesses. Since Lillian ordered first-class tickets, our elegant seating place was at the front of the airplane. The airplane eventually got filled by people from various cultures, so we started to buckle our seats as assigned by the radio and off we flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was early in the morning, which then I decided to take a tranquil nap. In a few minutes, I rose from the alarms of “delightful” stewardesses and the cries of babies.…

The Strange Case of Mole Airlines At 6:02 am, our team was called on-site to the crash of Mole Airlines, Flight 1023, in a remote location. The plane was showing evidence of a pre-crash explosion, determined to be caused by trinitrotoluene explosive, also known as TNT dynamite. We were able to conclude the cause due to an elemental analysis of the residue found: 37.01% carbon, 2.22% hydrogen, 18.5% nitrogen, and 42.27% oxygen. Eight victims were found at the scene, and one was determined to be…

has an important client, which is the Brisbane Airport Corporation. As we all know that Brisbane airport has a strict security system, which means we should accept security check when we enter the inside airport and their staff will follow us wherever we go in the airport. This is a little bit complex than other projects but more interesting. The most difficult things in this project we both felt is the data collection because we should go to the airport several times and it is far away from…

Passing through TSA security checkpoints can be confusing regarding the rules and regulations of permissible baby items. Understanding beforehand what is allowable will help to alleviate the anxieties of this mandatory process. What You Should Know About TSA When Traveling With an Infant If there are concerns going through an airline security checkpoint with an infant, knowing how to prepare and what to expect will help alleviate anxieties. Although, the Transportation Security Administration…

of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to prevent future attacks. TSA is a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, they monitor all security for traveling public in the United States. In response to the September 11 attacks, many citizens applied to work for TSA in a short amount of time. This created a need to train new employees efficiently and quickly (Issa, 2016). Before the United States decided to nationalize airport security, most U.S. airports were privately…

change is the security in airports. The precautions that are taken when entering an airport have dramatically changed since 9/11. Nearly two months after the attacks, Jason Villemez writes, “Congress federalized airport security by passing the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which created the Transportation Security Administration.” Jason explains how Congress passed an Act that made every airport in America to have the same security processes. Before making airport security a…

Why does it take so long to get through airport security? It is because airports have to have more security now than they used to so people have to go through metal detectors as well as backscatter systems. Backscatter systems are being introduced throughout the United Sates. Flying is a very dangerous mode of transportation, partially because people are in a confined space and have no option of leaving once the plane is in the air. This means that extra precautions must be taken to ensure the…