Authority. Flight Guard was scrapped after having been installed on only a handful of its fleet due to both the international regulatory constraints and financial reasons as it was a very costly system. The UK did permit the system, and Heathrow Airport was considered as one of the highest risk airports by Israeli security services. Security was stepped up around Heathrow in February 2003 after intelligence reports stated that al-Qaeda was planning to imminently shoot-down a jet over the airport. Troops and tanks were stationed around the perimeter for a week. In 2008,
Israel
procured a laser-based jamming system called Multi-spectral
Infrared
Countermeasure (MUSIC) that does not use flares and in 2009 it was reported in the press that the Israeli transport ministry had awarded Elbit Systems a $76 million contract to supply this system, as part of the government’s Sky Shield aviation defence plan, to protect aircraft from MANPADS. MUSIC will reportedly be installed on all El Al, Arkia and Israir planes. Officials were reported in 2009 as saying that Israel’s intelligence community had been tracking shipments of surface to air missiles (SAMs) from Egypt into Gaza and that the number of shipments increased in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. In 2009 a Sudanese
passenger attempted to divert an Egypt Air Flight en route from Khartoum to Cairo to Jerusalem, saying he wanted to liberate the city. He was overpowered
by air marshals on board the craft and it is understood the attempt was little more than a drink-fuelled incident. Also in 2009, Israel
launched its ‘Code Positive’ pilot verification smart card system, developed by Elbit Systems, designed to verify that aircraft heading for Israel are not hostile. Although it is in use on a trial basis with five overseas carriers (Air Canada, Continental Airlines, Delta, Ethiopian Airlines and US Airways), there are some concerns over its effectiveness and potential to interfere with standard landing
“
...rockets have also been fired at Israel’s Red Sea resort city Eilat. In 2005, a rocket fired from across the border in Aqaba, Jordan landed near the airport...”
procedures. Such concerns were exacerbated on 18th July this year when an Ethiopian Airlines jet, operating between Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv had to be intercepted by two IDF fighters after the pilot reportedly failed to transmit the correct Code Positive number at the predetermined distance
(approx. 200 miles) to the air traffic control centre in Beit Dagan. The personal identification code is intended to show that the pilot at the controls is the one who has been authorised to fly the aircraft and pilots who fail the authentication test are therefore denied entry to Israeli airspace.
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