Airline Passenger Security Screening New Technologies and Implementation Issues (1996) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION
1 INTRODUCTION
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On February 1, 1972, the FAA issued a rule requiring air carriers to use a screening system, acceptable to the FAA, that would require screening all passengers "by one or more of the following systems: behavioral profile, magnetometer, identification check, physical search." Hijackings continued and on December 5, 1972, the FAA issued emergency rules that required screening all passengers and carry-on baggage on all certified, scheduled passenger aircraft. The anti-hijacking or screening program currently used by U.S.
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The panel considered ways in which the methods could be implemented to maintain high levels of effectiveness, while minimizing health risks and increasing public acceptance. The panel also identified key factors that could affect their implementation, considering mitigating strategies and alternate screening methods for those passengers who wish to avoid 7 the automated system.
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If specific hijacking or terrorist targets have been identified, the FAA declares a higher alert level and warns air carriers and airport authorities of the specific bomb or hijacking threats and of their potential locations. For higher alert levels, the security-screening process imposes additional procedures to increase the likelihood of detecting the terrorist.
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People exposed to screening technologies can be expected to express concerns in four areas: health typified by perceived health risks associated with exposure to x-rays convenience usually a matter of delays; as delays become longer, public acceptance of a particular screening procedure decreases privacy-for both an individual's body and possessions; technologies that display images of the body or that involve person-to-person contact raise potential concerns about privacy comfort the physical intrusion of the screening equipment on the passenger Because people differ in terms of the importance they place on the various concerns discussed above, they will also differ in their level of acceptance or rejection of passenger screening technologies. Issues of health, convenience, and privacy are important, but the distribution of public response to these issues is equally important.
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However, if the FAA and the air carriers can develop a reliable method for determining which passengers pose no danger to the flight, for example, by developing an effective passenger-profiling system, then new technologies may be used as a secondary screening system for more intensive inspection of passengers who cannot be cleared in advance. Thus, development of a passengerprofiling system holds great promise.
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