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23 Hugh Williamson. “Ban on Small Aircraft Flying Over Berlin.” Financial Times (London), July 25, 2005.
24 The White House Office of the Press Secretary. Press Briefing by Ron Noble, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement and Carl Meyer, Special Agent, United States Secret Service. September 12, 1994. Robert Pear. “Crash at the White House: The Pilot.” The New York Times, September 13, 1994, p. 20.
25 CRS analysis of NTSB Aviation Accident Database and Synopses from 1962-2004 (available at [http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp]).
26 Richard Liebson. “1 Held in Drunken Joy Ride in Cessna.” The Journal News (White Plains, NY), June 23, 2005, p. 1A.
a late-night joyride of more than 300 miles, landing at Gwinnett County (Georgia) -Briscoe Field airport near Atlanta.27 While thefts of jets are extremely rare, in another incident that occurred on December 15, 1997, an individual with falsified FAA credentials stole a Lear Jet from the Fort Lauderdale Executive airport in Florida and piloted the airplane to Nicaragua to use the plane for charter flight operations.28
Like suspected suicides using aircraft, thefts of small GA aircraft are relatively rare and thefts of jet aircraft are virtually unheard of. The AOPA notes that, historically, only about a dozen GA aircraft are stolen each year and recent trends suggest that owners and operators of these airplanes are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to theft.29 Specifically, the AOPA cites statistics from the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, Inc. indicating that while 13 GA aircraft were stolen in 2002, only 6 (5 light single-engine aircraft and one medium-sized twin-engine aircraft) were stolen in 2003.30 Arguably, these statistics do not indicate that GA aircraft are not vulnerable to theft, but rather may simply suggest that existing vulnerabilities in GA security are rarely exploited. While airplane thefts may be rare, high-profile thefts, like the cases cited above, provide some evidence that individuals with knowledge of GA airports and aircraft could exploit existing security vulnerabilities and access aircraft relatively easily.
The Terrorist Threat
While none of the events discussed above has been linked to terrorism, some limited intelligence information that has been made public suggests a continued terrorist interest in using GA aircraft to carry out attacks both domestically and overseas. For example, a crop duster pilot in Florida identified 9/11 suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta as an individual who had approached him in early 2001 inquiring about the purchase and operation of crop duster aircraft.31 Similarly, U.S. authorities presented evidence that Zacharias Moussaoui – who was arrested prior to the 9/11 attacks after raising suspicions surrounding his desire to train in large aircraft simulators and pleaded guilty to conspiring with the 9/11 hijackers – made similar inquiries about starting a crop dusting company while living in Norman, Oklahoma.
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