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Airlines and Security -- The Challenge post 9/11
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[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]WASHINGTON (AP)--Airline passengers soon will be asked to provide their full names and birth dates when they buy tickets, which the government says it needs for a new computerized screening system.
The Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to implement the system, called Secure Flight, even though misgivings about passenger privacy and other issues raised in a congressional investigation have yet to be fully dealt with. A limited rollout of the program is set this year.
Congress passed a law that said the system could not go live until the Government Accountability Office reported it had met 10 criteria, including adequate privacy protections, accuracy of data, a system of redress and safeguards to ensure the system won't be abused or accessed by unauthorized people.
The Transportation Security Administration failed, in March, to satisfy nine of the 10 criteria.
Justin Oberman, the TSA official in charge of the system, said the GAO based its conclusions on information collected in February, and the TSA has made great improvements since then. For example, TSA set up a redress office that will be staffed with government employees who can field people's complaints that they have been misidentified as terrorists, he said. "A lot has changed," Oberman said. "We're working very closely with GAO and intend to meet all 10 criteria when we start in August."
The government has been looking for ways to upgrade passenger screening since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S. Previous attempts were scrapped amid fears the government would have access to too much personal information without sufficient safeguards to ensure it would remain private.
Secure Flight would allow the TSA to take over from the airlines the responsibility of checking passengers' names against lists of known or suspected terrorists. Before a flight will be able to take off, the airlines will send data about their passengers to the TSA, which will check their names against the lists.
Bruce Schneier, a security expert who serves on the TSA-appointed oversight panel for Secure Flight, criticized the agency for moving ahead before showing the system works. He said he will ask Congress to keep a close eye on the system.
As part of the TSA's effort to implement Secure Flight, the agency soon will require airlines to solicit passengers' full names and birth dates. Passengers do not have to provide them, but if they don't there's a better chance they'll have to undergo more stringent screening at the airport, Oberman said.
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Air France Flight To Boston Diverted At Request Of US
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[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]PARIS (AP)--An Air France flight from Paris to Boston was diverted to another U.S. airport on Thursday because U.S. authorities wanted to check a passenger aboard the flight, the airline said.
Flight AF332 was being directed to an airport in Maine, Air France spokeswomen said. The spokeswomen, who refused to give their names, said they didn't know which airport.
Cable News Network reported that the plane was being diverted to an airport in Bangor after authorities found the passenger's name was on a no-fly list.
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[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]PARIS (AP)--An Air France flight from Paris to Boston was diverted to another U.S. airport on Thursday because U.S. authorities wanted to check a passenger aboard the flight, the airline said.
Flight AF332 was being directed to an airport in Maine, Air France spokeswomen said. The spokeswomen, who refused to give their names, said they didn't know which airport.
Cable News Network reported that the plane was being diverted to an airport in Bangor after authorities found the passenger's name was on a no-fly list.
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Fly Navy said:
Yeah like Rosie O'Donnell who wants armed guards to take her 'kids' to school but we can't have them in the common public. I guess we are too 'poor' to need them. Or just too incompetent to 'understand' how to properly operate one? Either fits in her mind I guess.
A4sForever said:Air France Flight To Boston Diverted At Request Of US
[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]Thursday May 12, 1:11 PM EDT [/font]
[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]PARIS (AP)--An Air France flight from Paris to Boston was diverted to another U.S. airport on Thursday because U.S. authorities wanted to check a passenger aboard the flight, the airline said.
Flight AF332 was being directed to an airport in Maine, Air France spokeswomen said. The spokeswomen, who refused to give their names, said they didn't know which airport.
Cable News Network reported that the plane was being diverted to an airport in Bangor after authorities found the passenger's name was on a no-fly list.
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Yeah I heard that on the news today. All I could think was "well good thing we let him actually get on the plane before realizing he wasn't allowed on the plane" Idiots!
US Set To Test Missile Defenses Aboard Commercial Planes
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[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is financing tests of infrared laser-based systems for commercial planes that are designed to find and disable shoulder-fired missiles, the New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
It is part of an effort that could soon turn into a more than $10 billion project to install a high-tech missile defense system on the nation's commercial planes, the report said.
An American Airlines (AMR) Boeing 767 (BA) currently in a Texas airplane hangar is one of three planes that, by the end of this year, will be used to test the missile-defense system, the report said.
The Department of Homeland Security has been directed by Congress to move rapidly to take technology designed for military aircraft and adapt it so it can protect the nation's 6,800 commercial jets, the report said.
The department has so far invested $120 million in the testing effort, which is expected to last through next year, the report said.
Yet even before the tests begin, some members of Congress, and several prominent aviation and terrorism experts, are questioning whether the rush to deploy this expensive new antiterrorism system makes sense, the report said.
Homeland Security officials have repeatedly cautioned that no credible evidence exists of a planned missile attack in the U.S., the report said. But there is near unanimity among national security experts and lawmakers that because of the relatively low price and small size of the missiles, as well as the large number available on the black market, they represent a legitimate domestic threat, the Times reported.
"We are long overdue for a passenger aircraft to be taken down by a shoulder- launched missile," said Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida, who is pushing for the systems to be installed, the report said. "We have been extremely, extremely lucky."
But a significant contingent of domestic security experts say the administration's focus on these missiles may be misdirected, the Times reported. They cite the broad range of ways that terrorists might strike next and point to studies showing that shoulder-fired missiles - the most popular of which are U.S.-made Stingers and Soviet-made SA-7's - present less of a threat at airports than do truck bombs or luggage bombs, the report said.
Northrop Grumman (NOC) and BAE Systems (BA.LN) are competing to build the devices, which rely on plane-mounted sensors that detect heat-seeking missiles and then automatically fire infrared lasers to jam or confuse the missiles' guidance systems, the report said. The defense would be used for about a 50-mile area around airports, while planes land or take off, the Times reported.
The American Airlines Boeing 767 - the same type of plane that terrorists flew into the World Trade Center - and two jets owned by Northwest Airlines (NWAC) and FedEx Corp. (FDX) will be tested to determine whether they remain as airworthy with the new technology aboard and to figure out if, in simulated attacks, the defense system is reliable. For now, no passengers will be aboard, the report said.
Soooooo .... who's going to pay for it? The politicians pontificate and the bureaucrats regulate and the unfunded mandates continue to strangle what life there is out of the airlines ....
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[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is financing tests of infrared laser-based systems for commercial planes that are designed to find and disable shoulder-fired missiles, the New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
It is part of an effort that could soon turn into a more than $10 billion project to install a high-tech missile defense system on the nation's commercial planes, the report said.
An American Airlines (AMR) Boeing 767 (BA) currently in a Texas airplane hangar is one of three planes that, by the end of this year, will be used to test the missile-defense system, the report said.
The Department of Homeland Security has been directed by Congress to move rapidly to take technology designed for military aircraft and adapt it so it can protect the nation's 6,800 commercial jets, the report said.
The department has so far invested $120 million in the testing effort, which is expected to last through next year, the report said.
Yet even before the tests begin, some members of Congress, and several prominent aviation and terrorism experts, are questioning whether the rush to deploy this expensive new antiterrorism system makes sense, the report said.
Homeland Security officials have repeatedly cautioned that no credible evidence exists of a planned missile attack in the U.S., the report said. But there is near unanimity among national security experts and lawmakers that because of the relatively low price and small size of the missiles, as well as the large number available on the black market, they represent a legitimate domestic threat, the Times reported.
"We are long overdue for a passenger aircraft to be taken down by a shoulder- launched missile," said Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida, who is pushing for the systems to be installed, the report said. "We have been extremely, extremely lucky."
But a significant contingent of domestic security experts say the administration's focus on these missiles may be misdirected, the Times reported. They cite the broad range of ways that terrorists might strike next and point to studies showing that shoulder-fired missiles - the most popular of which are U.S.-made Stingers and Soviet-made SA-7's - present less of a threat at airports than do truck bombs or luggage bombs, the report said.
Northrop Grumman (NOC) and BAE Systems (BA.LN) are competing to build the devices, which rely on plane-mounted sensors that detect heat-seeking missiles and then automatically fire infrared lasers to jam or confuse the missiles' guidance systems, the report said. The defense would be used for about a 50-mile area around airports, while planes land or take off, the Times reported.
The American Airlines Boeing 767 - the same type of plane that terrorists flew into the World Trade Center - and two jets owned by Northwest Airlines (NWAC) and FedEx Corp. (FDX) will be tested to determine whether they remain as airworthy with the new technology aboard and to figure out if, in simulated attacks, the defense system is reliable. For now, no passengers will be aboard, the report said.
Soooooo .... who's going to pay for it? The politicians pontificate and the bureaucrats regulate and the unfunded mandates continue to strangle what life there is out of the airlines ....
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