Just days after a jet skier was able to not only wander onto airport grounds by scaling a fence, crossing two runways, jetways, and entering Terminal 3 without setting off or alerting security officials courtesy of a $100 million security system, word comes that a gate close to the airport's fuel tank farm was unsecured and no cameras were positioned to allow security to view the location.
Showing posts with label air safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air safety. Show all posts
Friday, 17 August 2012
Monday, 13 August 2012
Port Authority Looking At JFK Airport Security Breach
Posted on 06:50 by Unknown
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey operates JFK International Airport, which is in Queens alongside Jamaica Bay and the Gateway National Recreation Area. The airport is surrounded by water on two sides - where its runways are located. After 9/11, airport security was boosted and the Port Authority installed a $100 million Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, that included scanners,
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Port Authority Dumps Security Firm Over ID Snafu
Posted on 10:40 by Unknown
Last week, it came to light that a security supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport turned out to be an illegal alien who used an identification stolen from a man who nearly two decades ago. No one - not the security firm, not the Port Authority, not the TSA - knew that this had occurred until a whistleblower came forward and tipped off the Port Authority inspector general's office.
Now, we're
Now, we're
Monday, 14 May 2012
Airport Security Theater Takes Turn to the Absurd
Posted on 18:35 by Unknown
For all the talk of improving security and eliminating all manner of holes in security around airplanes and airports, it seems that there was one huge gaping hole at one of the airports from which one of the 9/11 aircraft took off.
A security supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport was using the identification of a dead man for more than 17 years. Bimbo Olumuyia Oyelwole, a 54-year-old Nigerian
A security supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport was using the identification of a dead man for more than 17 years. Bimbo Olumuyia Oyelwole, a 54-year-old Nigerian
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Foiled Underwear Bomb Plot Linked With UAV Airstrike in Yemen
Posted on 08:40 by Unknown
Well, as I suspected yesterday, the foiled underwear bomb plot and the UAV raid that killed a major al Qaeda figure (and who was linked to the USS Cole bombing) were connected. "I was told by the White House that they are connected, that they are part of the same operation," Representative Peter King told CNN a day after news of the intercepted bomb that authorities said was intended to make its
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Underwear Bomber Sentencing Underway With Expected Life Imprisonment
Posted on 12:10 by Unknown
The admitted terrorist who sought to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on its way to Detoit is in court today for sentencing. It's widely expected that Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab will receive a life sentence.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the privileged son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, returns to federal court in Detroit on Thursday to receive a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up
Posted in Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab, air safety, Al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, conspiracies, jihad, terrorism
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Congressional Negotiators Reach Deal on Long Term Funding For FAA
Posted on 07:00 by Unknown
For the past several years, the FAA has been funded on a stopgap basis, and there was even a period when the authorized funding ended and the FAA had to cease all but critical safety operations as Congress bickered over funding.
Now for the first time since 2007, Congressional negotiators in the House and Senate have reached a compromise deal to fund the FAA for the next four years. The bill
Now for the first time since 2007, Congressional negotiators in the House and Senate have reached a compromise deal to fund the FAA for the next four years. The bill
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