The phrase "aviation security expert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a professional who specializes in ensuring the safety and security of aviation operations.
Example: "The aviation security expert provided valuable insights on how to enhance airport safety measures."
Alternatives: "air safety specialist" or "aviation safety consultant".
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"Things change all the time," says Tom Hardiman, aviation security expert at the management consultancy Egremont Group.
"Wherever you establish a security perimeter, by definition, there's stuff outside it," said Arnold Barnett, an aviation security expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explaining why it was hard to guard the people at the gate.
The article also cites Vladimir Karnozov, identified as an "aviation security expert," as repeating the claim prevalent in Russian media narrative that the rebels would have lacked the training to operate the sophisticated Buk system.
The airport has already repaired the hole cut by the activists in its perimeter fence, and an aviation security expert said the ability of the activists to get through the barrier would not be a serious security issue.
Richard Bloom, an aviation security expert at Arizona's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, said he wasn't aware of another incident in the United States in which a ground crew member managed to steal an airplane.
European aviation security experts are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to consider possible responses to any extension of the ban.
Aviation security experts said most airports would probably keep federal screeners because federal employees would guarantee a higher level of security.
Aviation security experts said that scanners designed to pick up explosives rather than metal exist, but are not in widespread use.
But even as the European Union's aviation security experts met to discuss scanners, Belgium's secretary of state for transportation, Etiennne Schouppe, described the enhanced measures as excessive, saying security requirements at European airports were already strict enough.
But several aviation security experts said today that Mr. Lawless was right: if anything, Logan's level of security is typical of large international airports -- and that, not some specific Boston flaw, is the cause for concern, they said.
