ICAO’s Response to Unlawful Aviation Acts: A Security Overview

ICAO’s Response to Unlawful Acts Against Aviation

ICAO’s Role and Mission in Aviation Security (AvSec)

  • Established at Chicago Convention-1944
  • Purpose: international cooperation in standards and procedures for civil aviation.
  • ICAO promotes safety and regularity
  • ICAO Assembly discusses and adopts “standards and recommended practices”
  • Sovereign nations then adopt national regulations in accordance with SARPs
  • Conducts security audits per the Universal Safety Audit Program (USAP).
  • Enforcement of ICAO standards
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Architecture & Design

General Documentation: Cataloging

Name of Building: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Architect: Gehry

Chronology: 1991-1997

Location: Bilbao

Style: Deconstructivist

Brief: Materials: Limestone, glass, and titanium

Building System: Industrial materials with CATIA, a computer program that enables the creation of any form in architecture.

Formal Analysis

Support Elements and Supported Elements

The museum claims not to contain a single flat surface throughout its structure. Part of the building is crossed by a

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Home Construction: Project, Building, and Assessment

To meet the needs of a home, it must pass a three-stage technological process:

  • Project
  • Construction
  • Assessment

The Project

When it is determined that a house should be built, an architectural project is developed. This project defines the characteristics of the design, under the direction of an architect. The project consists of three documents:

  • Memory and Specifications: These include calculations to determine ventilation surfaces and indicate the use of materials.
  • Plans: Thanks to graphic language,
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Umayyad Art and Architecture: Mosques and Minarets in Al-Andalus

Umayyad Art and Architecture in Al-Andalus

There are new minimum: Arcos geminate geminate and intersecting arcs.

Mansur in 999 built a pavilion in the eastern part of the prayer hall, ablution.

The building is fundamental to study the Umayyad art, being a regency and minimizing the debris left over from other buildings.

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Andalusian Minarets Used as Christian Towers

Occur later in Cordoba.

Late ninth century or early tenth century.

In the following two examples, both towers reproduce the

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Aviation Security: Historical Attacks and Countermeasures

A Retrospective View of Crimes and Terrorism in Aviation

Types of Attack

  • Three “fundamental” types of attack on aviation:
    • Hijacking (skyjacking) aircraft
    • Bomb placement in aircraft
    • Airport terminal assaults
  • Types of attack have changed little over time, but motivations, methods, and purposes have changed.
  • Now we should add “airplane as a weapon” to the list above.
  • Lethality and damage to society have expanded enormously.

The “Eras” of Attacks on Aviation

  • 1930-1960
  • 1960-1980
  • 1980-1990
  • 1990-2001
  • Post-
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US Aviation Security: Regulations and Agencies

US Responses to Unlawful Acts in Aviation

Brief History of US Bureaucratic Responses to Threats

  • 1961: Air Marshal program initiated.
  • 1971: FAR Part 107 (Airport Security) created.
  • 1971 & 1974: Anti-Hijacking laws passed.
  • 1978: Act to Combat Terrorism.
  • 1990: Aviation Security Improvement Act.
  • 1996: White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.
  • 1996: Aviation Security and Antiterrorism Act.
  • 2000: Airport Security Improvement Act.
  • 2001: Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA).
  • 2002: Homeland
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