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Aviation Security: FAA Needs Preboard Passenger Screening Performance Standards

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 24, 1987
Report No. RCED-87-182
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Summary:

GAO provided information on its work to date on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) testing of preboard passenger screening.

GAO found that, although the preboard screening process has provided a deterrent to crimes against civil aviation, there were wide variations, from a high of 99 percent to a low of 34 percent, in the frequency with which FAA detected weapons.

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