Insiders and Their Threat to Aviation Security

H4 Solutions ^ | 06/24/2019 | Kelly Hoggan

[BigKahuna]

December 10, 2014: A New York man was arrested that day by Big Apple law enforcement and charged with gun running. Over several months, he’d smuggled at least two AR-15s in addition to approximately 129 handguns into the city, often while flying from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to JFK International Airport to do so. Once in New York, the firearms were believed to have found their way into Brooklyn’s criminal underworld.

The above three incidents, though not alike in the crimes committed, do have common elements which bind them together. For one, airlines and their planes were the locus of the terror act, in the case of the TWA hijacking, or were used at least in part to carry out the crimes (in the latter two examples). Also, all three events were made possible only through the active participation of airport or airline employees.

In the TWA hijacking, aircraft cleaners or caterers hid a pistol and grenades in the airliner’s lavatories while it was being serviced in Athens before its departure for Rome. At the time, Athens’ airport suffered from relatively weak security and only minimally vetted employees granted access to secure areas of the airport, including the tarmac and the planes on it.

[BigKahuna]

Sooner or later, someone working at a U.S. airport or airline is going to try to help a terror cell or group with an attack on a plane. This guy knows what he's talking about.

[logi_cal869]

I am SO tired of hearing about the “ramp” and all the security violations which get reported continuously over the years.

The fact is that after the next attack, it is likely that the ‘ramp’ will be implicated and, yet, passengers & the public will bear the burden of increased security.

Thanks, GW and republicans.

Some things never change. Furthermore, I see a lot of crowing about repealing the illegal ACA here, but very little about the Patriot Act.

Curious...