Abstract
While technological advances have produced a remarkable degree of safety in air travel, unparalleled by any other means of transport, criminal attacks against airlines have posed a man-made threat for which there are no simple technical solutions. The aviation community has looked to ICAO for vigorous leadership in dealing with all aspects of the problem. Yet from the start the Organisation has had a hard time living up to this model role beyond setting minimal security standards and providing advice and training.
Aviation security is only as strong as its weakest link.
Assad Kotaite, President of the ICAO Council
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Notes and References
Robert G. Bell, ‘The US Response to Terrorism Against International Civil Aviation’, ORBIS 19(4) 1976, p. 195.
It is interesting to note that the interpretation of the terms’ security’, ‘act of unlawful interference’,’ security programme’and ‘appropriate security’ was left to the discretion of states, pending the development of definitions of such terms. The term’ security’ in Annex 6 (Operation of Aircraft), however, is used in the sense of ‘prevention of illicit acts against civil aviation’. Sakeus Akweenda, ‘Prevention of Unlawful Interference with Aircraft: A Study of Standards and Recommended Practices’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 35(2) April 1986, p. 437.
Edward McWhinney, Aerial Piracy and International Terrorism (Dordrecht: Martinus Nyhoff, 1987) p. 119.
C. Emanuelli, ‘Legal Aspects of Aerial Terrorism: the Piecemeal vs the Comprehensive Approach’, Journal of International Law and Economics, 10:503 (1975).
Evan Luard, International Agencies: The Emerging Framework of Interdependence (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications 1977) p. 288.
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Sochor, E. (1991). Terrorism in the Sky: Setting Security Standards. In: The Politics of International Aviation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11347-7_9
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