Rodney Wallis

Lockerbie (eBook, PDF)

The Story and the Lessons

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, personal knowledge of aviation security matters gained from his position at the crossroads of security information and the industry's endeavors to combat aviation terrorism, had warned the industry one year before the bombing that the interline element of baggage represented the prime opportunity for terrorist activity and had urged the adoption of passenger and baggage matching, a system that he had helped to develop. Mandated by the FAA for use at high risk airports, it was the feature missing from Pan Am's activity at Frankfort, an omission so cruelly exploited by the bombers. Wallis argues that the priority given by governments to technological solutions to the continuing terrorist threat puts the flying public at unnecessary risk every day. This volume brings together all of the facts surrounding the sabotage of Flight 103, including the investigation and the civil litigation in which so much of the story unfolded for the first time. It uncovers the fundamental weaknesses in Pan Am's communication and management policies. Wallis supports the policy that politics are politics and explores the possibility that U.S. and U.K. policy towards a neutral trial for the two Libyans indicted for the bombing, which may have been affected by the wider scenario of Middle East politics rather than simple justice for the victims of Lockerbie. Although the tragedy has led to improvements in defense technology for use against acts of aviation sabotage, these methods have yet to be applied universally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002922
• Artikelnr.: 68528608

Autorenporträt

RODNEY WALLIS led the international airline industry's effort to combat terrorism aimed against international civil aviation for eleven years (1980-1991). As Director of Security of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), he served on ICAO's Panel of Aviation Security Experts. He provided liaison between the international airlines and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) on security matters. He made input to two U.S. presidential commissions studying airborne terrorism peared before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives ve evidence to the Indian Judicial Inquiry into the loss of an Air-India Boeing 747 to a terrorist bomb s appeared before committees of both houses of the Canadian Parliament and before the UK's Parliamentary and Scientific Committee at the Palace of Westminster.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Sabotage Growing Threat of Terrorism Bombing of Pan Am
103 Search and Recovery Governmental Inquiries Indictments Families' Search
for the Truth Trial: Fact Witnesses Trial: Deposition Witnesses Trial:
Expert Testimony The Appeals Conspiracy Theories Post-Lockerbie Epilogue
Index