DEFINITION:

Aircraft security measures are the physical protection measures required in order to protect the aircraft and the passengers and crew when they are on-board.

(Source: ACARE Domain 416 and PAE insertion about Cybersecurity)

 

SUBDOMAINS:

  1. Systems and procedures for identification and access of personnel to the flight deck 
  2. On-board explosives detection systems
  3. Alarm systems (e.g. panic alarms for cabin staff, seatback phones for passengers)
  4. Cockpit security monitoring systems (voice recorders, video surveillance etc)
  5. Passenger cabin security monitoring systems (voice recorders, video surveillance etc)
  6. Security systems deployed by armed sky marshals
  7. Tamper-proof and multiply-redundant transponder systems
  8. Modified collision and terrain-avoidance systems (to prevent aircraft from being crashed deliberately)
  9. Modified automatic landing systems (to enable forced landing of aircraft by ground authorities after it has been hijacked)
  10. Cybersecurity procedures and systems.

Comment: see also Area ‘Structures, Materials & Processes’