Aviation Terrorism and Security

by Brian Jenkins, Paul Wilkinson, Jenkins Brian

Book Overview

First Published in 1999. The recent conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called '48 hours of terror in the sky' by conspiring to bomb a dozen US airliners, the increasing number of man portable SAM attacks on aircraft, and the recent crash of a hijacked Ethiopian airliner off the Comoro Islands causing 127 deaths, show that aviation confronts a wide range of security threats. The aim of this volume, published ten years after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714644633
• ISBN13: 9780714644639
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 10.3"