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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for transport policy and organizes an annual summit of ministers. Our work is underpinned by economic research, statistics collection and policy analysis, often undertaken in collaboration with many of the world's leading research figures in academia, business and government. This series of Discussion Papers is intended to disseminate the International Transport Forum’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned.
- ISSN: 20708270 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20708270
Toward Risk-Based Aviation Security Policy
The well-coordinated terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 presented the world with a new
aviation security threat: the capture of aircraft in flight to be used as human-guided missiles.
The two previous threats—hijacking an aircraft for ransom and putting a bomb aboard an
aircraft—had led to varying degrees of screening of baggage and passengers in developed
countries, plus some use of on-board security personnel on selected flights in some
countries.
In the wake of 9/11, governments in the United States, Canada, and Europe (at both national
and EU levels) implemented a number of additional aviation security measures, among them:
- strengthened (and locked) cockpit doors;
- 100% screening of checked baggage;
- more thorough screening of passengers and their carry-on baggage;
- increased use of on-board security officers;
- increased attention to air cargo;
- and greater attention to airport access control and perimeter control (...)
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