After the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers, the Transportation Security Administration assisted airports and airlines in evaluating risks and stepping up security measures. Providing risk-based-security lies between accurately identifying the risks and objectively...
In an effort to modernize data and increase efficiency and safety, the Federal Aviation Administration has decided to streamline the Notices to Airmen Publication (NTAP) by eliminating the Part 1 section, which provides lists of flight data center notams. This change...
From H4 Solutions: Transportation Security Administration officers are the security agency’s frontline employees. They staff airport security checkpoints, screen checked luggage to ensure it’s safe to load onto commercial airliners and perform a wide variety of other...
Whether malicious or negligent, lasers pointing towards aircraft can have severe and often detrimental effects for aircraft pilots. When a laser is directed towards an airplane, it can cause a pilot to be disoriented and even temporarily blinded. As you can imagine,...
Kelly Hoggan originally published this piece on H4-Solutions.com. _ Anyone who’s ever traveled internationally and then returned to the United States no doubt has a story to tell when it comes to making their way through U.S. Customs stations. Stories abound of...
From H4 Solutions: June 14, 1985: TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-200 that had begun its journey earlier in the morning in Cairo, Egypt, was hijacked after it left Athens, Greece. It was initially scheduled to fly to Rome, Italy and then Boston and, finally, San Diego in...
