Greener Ways of Travel

  The International Air Transport Association lists the four greatest threats to aviation security as insider threat (airport/airline employees carrying out an attack), aviation cybersecurity (hacking into the systems that control day to day operations to cause disruption), security on the ground (having the right amount in the right place), and conflict zones (unauthorized incursions into the airport airspace) (Smith, 2018). You may be surprised to find terrorism missing from this list, but that is because it has aspects in all these four. Fig 1. Police drone causes Cessna damage (Robinson, 2023)   December 2019 saw London’s Gatwick airport cancel hundreds of flights and divert many more inbound due to sightings of two drones being flown close to the airport’s perimeter (McTegg, Fayez, Simmons, Gharineiat, 2022). As the ownership of drones has increased in recent years and there not being a registration requirement with authorities (so long as you operate unde...

The International Air Transport Association lists the four greatest threats to aviation security as insider threat (airport/airline employees carrying out an attack), aviation cybersecurity (hacking into the systems that control day to day operations to cause disruption), security on the ground (having the right amount in the right place), and conflict zones (unauthorized incursions into the airport airspace) (Smith, 2018). You may be surprised to find terrorism missing from this list, but that is because it has aspects in all these four.     December 2019 saw London’s Gatwick airport cancel hundreds of flights and divert many more inbound due to sightings of two drones being flown close to the airport’s perimeter (McTegg, Fayez, Simmons, Gharineiat, 2022). As the ownership of drones has increased in recent years and there not being a registration requirement with authorities (so long as you operate under USC 44809), the potential of a repeat of Gatwick at airports anywher...