Aviation Security: Next Steps : Field Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, December 10, 2001

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Page 37 - ... MEMBER. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Miss DONALD. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. My name is Barbara Donald and I am a member of the board of trustees of Family and Child Services, which is the largest private family sen-ice agency in the city. We appreciate this opportunity to appear before the committee to present our views on the District welfare budget. My agency, because of both policy and location in the inner city, is involved with the same kinds...
Page 37 - ALPA has been promoting the need for positive, electronic verification of identity and electronic airport access control systems since 1987 — shortly after the downing of PSA flight 1771 by an armed, disgruntled, former airline employee. This mass murder, which bore similarities to the hijackings of September 11th, was attributable in large measure to identity-verification inadequacies that have yet to be addressed 14 years later. At ALPA s urging, the FAA required approximately 200 of the largest...
Page 37 - ... regulations. ALPA has been at the forefront of the effort to create a more secure airline travel system. We are pleased, therefore, that the President last week signed into law the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (the Act) that contains many of the provisions that we have urged for adoption. This hearing is most timely, in that it concerns the actual implementation of that law's numerous provisions and other initiatives. Congress...
Page 39 - ... threat objects in a TIPS image, just as they do in a real bag, and their results are quantified and logged by computer. Performance of screeners has been shown to substantially improve with TIPS technology and it should be made a mandatory component of all baggage screening equipment. EMPLOYEE TRAINING Pilots at many US airlines view the security training that they receive from their companies as boring, irrelevant, and unrealistic — much of it is repetitive from year to year and may largely...
Page 37 - Employee and Passenger Identification ALPA has been promoting the need for positive, electronic verification of identity and electronic airport access control systems since 1987 - shortly after the downing of PSA flight 1771 by an armed, disgruntled, former airline employee.
Page 41 - RRT recognized the need for improvements to both types of transport aircraft doors when they specified, "retrofit of the entire US fleet" in their recommendations. posed for new aircraft provide such protection calling for "hardening" of cockpit floors, ceilings, and bulkheads, but retrofit of that protection is not addressed in the ATA proposal. This is a serious issue — many aircraft in the fleet today, thus exempt from regulations covering new designs, will likely be flying for decades to come....
Page 37 - NPRMs and final rules in a more expeditious fashion. 1 would like to emphasize that ALPA strongly promotes One Level of Security during the implementation of federal security-related regulations. Instituting a single security level, by definition, means the abolition of today's sundry security levels and practices for airlines and airports based on perceived threat. A terrorist-guided missile, in the form of a fully loaded airliner, can take off from any commercial airport in the country and wreak...
Page 7 - I have been laughed at and made fun of, but we are going to do it, and we are going to get the farmer a dollar a bushel for his corn between now and July.
Page 41 - Second, the Act does not create a Federal exemption from State laws for interstate carriage of weapons. We call on Congress to write new legislation aimed at addressing both of these requirements. Regarding non-lethal defensive capabilities, discussions are ongoing with others in government and industry on the best means of providing such to Doth pilots and flight attendants.
Page 37 - ALPA represents 67,000 airline pilots who fly for 47 US and Canadian airlines. We are sincerely appreciative of the opportunity to appear before the Committee to present our views on the important subject of aviation security.

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