CH20 / SECURITY SAFEGUARDING INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION AGAINST ACTS OF UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE

Question 1

The ICAO Annex 17 comprises rules in order to establish security measures for passengers:

Answer 1

Cabin baggage, checked baggage, cargo and other goods, access control and airport design

Question 2

A State shall take adequate measures for the safety of passengers and crew of an aircraft which is subjected to an act of unlawful interference,

Answer 2

Until their journey can be continued

Question 3

When an aircraft subject to unlawful interference has landed it shall notify by the most expeditious means of the State of registry of the aircraft and the State of the operator of the landing and shall similarly transmit all other relevant information to the:

Answer 3

Two aforementioned States, each State whose citizens suffered fatalities or injuries, each State whose citizens were detained as hostages, each State whose citizens are known to be on board the aircraft and the ICAO

Question 4

Definition of “Security, the ICAO Annex 17”, is a combination of measures:

Answer 4

human and material resources intended to safeguard international civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference

Question 5

A State shall provide assistance to an aircraft subjected to an act of unlawful seizure. This assistance includes:

Answer 5

Provision of navigation aids, air traffic services, permission to land

Question 6

For the transport of potentially disruptive passengers some supplementary safeguards are to be observed such as:

Answer 6

Boarding prior to all passengers

Question 7

Referring to the operational aspects in the unlawful seizure acts, it can be said:

Answer 7

The contracting State will make provisions to ensure that an aircraft affected by an unlawful seizure act, which has landed in their territory, would be retained, unless its departure is justified to protect lives

Question 8

When mixing or contact does take place between passengers subjected to security control and other persons not subjected to such control after the security screening points at airports serving international civil aviation have been passed

Answer 8

The passengers concerned and their cabin baggage shall be re-screened before boarding an aircraft

Question 9

When a member state allows police officers, security staff, bodyguards or other agents of foreign states to carry weapons in their territory for the protection of aircraft in flight, permission for the carriage of weapons should be conditional upon:

Answer 9

prior notification by the state of embarkation to the foreign state in which the weapons will be carried on the airport of arrival and notification of the pilot in command of a decision to permit a weapon to be carried on board his aircraft