Airport and aviation security

In fact, 6 days later another dramatic though unsuccessful attempt did occur at Orly airport. The French authorities traced the attack to the PELP Venezuelan terrorist, and leader of the PFLP group in Europe, Carlos. It is also known that once again an El A1 airliner had been deliberately chosen as a target by Gadafi in an attempt to avenge the loss of the Libyan airliner shot down by Israel over the Sinai Desert.  

The deadly accuracy and ease of handling of MANPADS were demonstrated when Somali gunmen shot down two US MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in October 1993. 

Infrastmcture Safety and the Environment, Protecting Commercial Aviation against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat, Rand COTpOTatirai, 2005, at 9. 

Recent years have seen increasing use of expensive and sophisticated surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles (SSM and SAM) by terrorists, generally of Russian or East European origin and redirected by Arab Governments, notably Colonel Gadafi s. Continuing development of these weapons for use by regular armies will ensure that new and more efficient versions will become available for terrorists.  

With increased airport security, the possibility of placing explosive devices on civil aircraft is becoming more difficult, but now the same destructive result can be achieved far more easily by using modem missiles or rockets. 

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