NATA President James K.
Coyne (right) has described Wednesday night's CBS Evening
News segment on the lack of security at general aviation airports
in the United States as "irresponsible journalism in its most
egregious form."
"Even a cursory check with the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA)-the government agency charged with aviation
security-would have revealed to the CBS reporter that NATA and all
of the general aviation industry have been working with the TSA
over the past year to formulate general aviation airport security
guidelines," Coyne stressed. "Those guidelines were submitted
to the TSA last fall and the TSA is now in the process of refining
them and distributing them to the industry. And long before
that we worked hand-in-glove with the TSA on implementing
additional security measures for all on-demand air charter aircraft
weighing more than 12,500 pounds-the 12-5 rule. There was not
even a mention of that in the report.
"The fact is that within weeks of the 9-11 terrorist attacks NATA
formed an Aviation Business Task Force composed of industry and
government representatives and created a comprehensive list of best
security practices for the industry. Those best practices
were widely distributed throughout the industry and have been
implemented at many fixed-base operations at general aviation
airports throughout the country.
"CBS has done itself and all of general aviation a huge
disservice by airing this report and not bothering to check the
facts," concluded Coyne.
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