AVIATION SAFETY & SECURITY

LECTURE 4:AIRPORT SECURITY

MOHD ‘ARIFF BIN ABDUL JALIL

OBJECTIVES

Able to explain in general how airport security works.

Know the equipments and the process related to Airport Security.

Able to explain the important of airport security.

REVIEW

What is Safety?

What is security?

How do they relate to each other?

SECURITY

Security is a procedure or action taken to ensure safety of a person.

The PROCESS of hazard identification and risk management is a SECURITY measurement.

If you can provide good security system,

you will create very safe environment

SECURITY KEYWORDS

Procedure Action taken Techniques Methods

TO ENSURE SAFETY

What are the steps, procedures, techniques and methods taken by aviation

world to ensure safety?

AVIATION WORLD

AIRPORT

PASSENGER

FLIGHT CONDITION

CARGO

PILOT AND CREW

AIRCRAFT / AIRPLANES

TICKET COUNTER

AVIATION MANAGEME

NTSAFETY

AVS 2104 : AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY

Airport SECURITY

Refer to the TECHNIQUES and METHODS used.

Protect airports and aircraft from crime and terrorism (especially after 11/9/2001).

DO YOU AGREE THAT WE SHOULD START FROM AIRPORT SECURITY?

JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER.

PASSENGER

ROUTE MAP

Passenger (From home)

Airport

Aircraft/ Airplanes

Safe Flight

Airport

Arrive at Destination

INTRODUCTION Large numbers of people pass through

airports every day. According to the Department of

Homeland Security, 730 MILLION PEOPLE travel on passenger jets every year.

More than 700 MILLION PIECES OF BAGGAGE are screened- for explosives and other dangerous items.

730, 000, 000 / 365days

= 2, 000, 000 passengers in one day

This mass gathering attracts terrorism.

WHO IS TERRORIST?somebody using violence for political

purposes.somebody who uses violence, especially

bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, to intimidate others, often for political purposes.

They interested in high concentrated people.

Example: Airport.

INTRODUCTION

The high concentration of people on large airliners, the potential high lethality rate of attacks on aircraft, and the ability to use a hijacked airplane as a lethal weapon provide an alluring target for terrorism.

Alluring means extremely attractive or tempting.

INTRODUCTION

Airport Security

Airport security provides: - First line of defense. - Attempting to stop would-be attackers from bringing weapons or bombs into the airport.

If they can succeed in this, then the chances of these devices getting on to aircraft are greatly reduced.

Two (2) purposes of Airport Security are: - protect airport from any attacks and crime. - protect aircraft from being attacks or hijack.

Airport Procedure Check-in Stage ( First line of

defense) Baggage and Luggage Scanning Personal Check Boarding Pass Check Embark to aircraft

Airport Security

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKSFirst Line Defense : Identity Check Confirming the identity of travelers. This is done by checking: - Photo ID - Identity Card - Passenger details

- Legal Document

If you are traveling internationally, you need to present your passport.

First Line of Defense

The significant of the 1st line defense procedure are: The confirm the right identity of the passenger. To avoid any fraud or false identity person from

embark inside aircraft. It is believe that people create false identity just do

crime. False identity could create the highest chances of hijacking and terrorism to be happen.

Historically, there is incident of hijacking because of false identity profile.

To early detect if there is any suspect of wanted person, terrorist or criminal.

False Identity

False Identity

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKS

First Line Defense Security patrols regularly scan the

perimeter in case someone tries to cut through the fence.

First Line of defense

Especially sensitive areas, like fuel depots or the terminals and baggage handling facilities are even more secure, with more fences and security checkpoints.

All access gates are monitored by either a guard station or surveillance cameras (CCTV).

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKS

Continuous Monitoring (Stated in SMS) Airport authority will keep monitor the airport

environment by using CCTV and 24-hours safe guarding action.

This continuous monitoring will ensure the authority to detect if there is any suspicious act inside the airport.

If there is any suspicious act, the authority will immediately react and make report to the other authority to ensure safety.

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKS

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKS

Continuous Monitoring

Enforcement Personnel / Officers

HOW AIRPORT SECURITY WORKS

Imagine for a second that you are a terrorist who wants to blow up or hijack a plane.

Do you think you’ll be able to do this in 2011?

Example of Situation 1

Baggage & Luggage Scanning At this stage, passenger need to scan all

bags and luggage they bring to airport.

It is to avoid passenger from bringing any illegal items that potentially could endanger other passengers and aircraft.

By scanning the luggage and bags, airport authority could identify illegal item from the scanner image.

There are several types of baggage and luggage scanning machine such as: X-Ray Machine Computed Tomography Scan Fluoroscopy Scan

Baggage & Luggage Scanning

In addition to passenger baggage, most planes carry enormous amounts of cargo.

All of this cargo has to be checked before it is loaded.

Baggage & Luggage Scanning

Boarding

You Can't Take it With You There are a number of items that you

cannot carry on a plane and some of that can't be packed in your bags, either :

1)Explosives: Fireworks, sparklers, 2)Weapons: Guns, swords, swords, knives

with blades of any length3)Pressurized containers: Hair spray, insect

repellant4)Household items: Flammable liquids,

Poisons5)Corrosives: Car batteries

Why can’t we carry in together?

Personal Check: Metal Detector After check-in and luggage scanning,

passenger need to pass though a tall boxy gate which call metal detector.

This is done to avoid passenger from bringing any metal weapon or metal item.

Not only that, passenger’s body will be check too.

METAL DETECTOR

Personal Check: x-Ray Machine

While you are stepping through the metal detector, your carry-on items are going through the X-ray system.

Last Line of Defense: Air Marshall An air marshal is a federal agent

disguised to look like regular passenger.

Each air marshal is authorized to carry a gun and make arrests

If fences and barriers are the first line of defense, the air marshals are the last.

No one knows which passenger is the air marshal.

No body knows if an air marshal is in the flight or not.

There are not enough Air Marshals to cover every flight, so their assignments are kept secret.

Last Line of Defense: Air Marshall

If everything else fails and a terrorist still gets onto a flight with a weapon, an armed air marshal can take control of a situation and restrain the attackers.

Last Line of Defense: Air Marshall

GROUP DISCUSSION

From the aircraft investigation shown later, determine what happen in the video.

Explain how can they do the criminal activities and pass all the first line of defense.

In your opinion, what should you do to overcome this situation.

Extract any relevant point that is related to the Aviation Safety and Security.

Conclusion

As we know, no human is free from doing any mistakes.

All the security equipments provided at the airport were not meant to solve problems but actually to assist human and lessen the mistake that might occur.

Despite of having good instruments and procedures, still aviation industry need to be develop and continuously improve.

This is due the fact that all the procedures and machines. are human made; and the possibility of failure is there.