Last year, two events in the Asia-Pacific region demonstrated the inherent weaknesses with our current approach to aviation security. In February, in New Zealand, there was an attempted hijacking of a domestic flight by an armed woman who had to use little in the way of initiative to infiltrate her weapons onto the aircraft - there simply was no screening operation in Blenheim. In March, in China, a China Southern flight was the subject of an attempted act of sabotage through the use of an improvised incendiary device. Again, the flight was a domestic operation. And the attack, supposedly carried out by ETIM, was yet another perfect of example of the fact that "next time it will be different".
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