Emerging Threat: Deployment & TSA Security
Since September 11, 2001, aviation and aircraft security has been taken very seriously. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defines risks as the potential for an adverse outcome that is assessed as a function of hazards/threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences. (TSA, 2017) General Aviation (GA) operators and the Intelligence Community (IC) agree that using an aircraft to attack a specific target is the dominant threat to GA. (TSA, 2017) This includes lone operators or large businesses of foreign origins. (TSA, 2017) 8 actions are used to make an emerging threat happen regarding General Aviation, and the one I would like to touch on is Deployment , the final acting point of a terrorist action. Deployment, put simply, is when individuals have gathered all necessary data, planned every route, and are now acting out their intended threat scenario. (TSA, 2017) An example of this would be the movie Carry-On (IMDB,2024), where the an...