The recent conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called ’48 hours of terror in the sky’ by conspiring to bomb a number of manportable SAM attacks on aircraft, and the recent crash of a Comoro Islands causing 127 deaths, show that aviation threats. The aim of this volume, published ten years after Lockerbie, is to assess the changing threats to aviation security. It is sad fact that despite major efforts by much more needs in international aviation security if further Lockerbies are to be prevented.
The contributors examine threats and vulnerabilities in the light of recent developments in aviation security and consider the prospects for strengthening the response at national and international levels. The study is of obvious relevance not only to security and academic specialists but community and national policy makers.