The DC-10 is jet airliner manufactured by McDonnel Douglas. It featured an unusual three-engine design, with two turbofan engines mounting on the underwing pylons and the third at the base of the vertical stabilizer. Also unusual is the DC-10’s outwardly opening cargo door. Most planes have their cargo doors swinging inwardly to utilize the pressure difference between the thin atmospheric air at altitude and the pressurized fuselage to keep the cargo door solidly in place. However, McDonnel…
the ATSA to institute new security measures as quick as possible. In 2002 the TSA was moved from the DOT to the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The TSA began to operate the screen procedures of more than 425 airports nationwide. Eighteen airports however applied for the Screening Partnership Program (SPP) with five being selected as part of the 2 year pilot program. It is this Authors opinion that the creation…
Understanding the impact of the federalization of airport screening is important. It is important because it seems to raise controversial concerns both negative and positive. Screening of all passengers’ is a critical position and needs to be taken very seriously. A position to constantly do the same security measure day in and day out can be daunting. The reason it could be so draining is because it can be difficult to stay motivated when conducting the same mission. Positive and negatives…
Armed and Unharmed “I can’t believe they haven’t instantaneously allowed pilots to defend themselves given the gaps in the current system,” said Representative John L. Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on aviation (West). He is referring to pilots of commercial airliners defending themselves by use of` weapons; such as firearms. The use of these firearms would be very beneficial to airliners and should have action taken in favor of it. The benefits of…
Do you think the evolution of airport security since 9/11 has made a positive or negative impact on the U.S. I think it has impacted the safety of U.S citizens positively because, before 9/11 you didn’t even have to take off your shoes, or any of your electronics out of your bag and you didn’t have to have a passport to go to and from Canada. We are a lot safer now that security is being taken seriously. 54% of people say that they would give up their privacy and freedoms to be protected from…
It was evident that there was a dramatic need for change in security post 9/11 attack. The terrorist had breached security at three American airports, allowing them to conduct the act of terrorism. ‘Eight were identified as requiring additional security checks (Prenzler, Lowden and Sarre 2010, 10)’, but yet they still pass through security. This attack gave way for governments to create legislation…
efficient way to fight terrorism would be to use profiling that is based on criminal activity and not race. Behavioral patterns or psychological characteristics would be better, more relevant indicators of who would be more likely to commit crimes. At an airport, for example, there are expectations of how a typical passenger behaves, how a family behaves, and even how air crew behaves. If a security official sees something out of the ordinary than what he or she would expect to see, they should…
without getting caught going through airport security. Was this attack caused because of the lack of airport security? Do you think that the airport the hijackers got through weren't intensified enough?…
and transport security act was an important part of the process because it was used to form the Transport Security Administration headed by the department of homeland security. Increased measures such as background checks for the more than 750,000 airport employees and increasing the number of law enforcement officers provided to these installations have played a major role in improving the industry post 9/ 11 (Blalock, Kadiyali, & Simon, 2007). The effects of these measures are varied with…
With more people going through airports security will need to become more efficient. One way the Transportation Security Association plans on doing this is by putting a large chunk of its security capability acquisition budget to security technologies. The Transportation Security Administration has a vision that sometime in the near future there will be no need to walk through airport security scanners, they envision something like a hallway that is full of…