Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 - Edna Chirico and I Will Be Following Implications of this and Other Events for Spanish-Speaking Community in the US

A flight above and through a war zone leads to tragedy. In collaboration with Edna Chirico's environmental, planning and educational consulting expertise I will be expanding my Spanish and Portuguese language transportation and international security expertise to the Charlotte Area. This morning, July 18th, 2014 I again was honored to be a guest on Univision's Miami radio affiliate Radio Mambi 719. I told noted radio news anchor Bernadette Pardo that the system that shot down Flight 17 could not have been operated by a "group of guys from a garage," and in Spanish made the following comments - - A BUK SAM is a fairly sophisticated system and it is unlikely it would be in the hands of untrained insurgents. - Contrary to reports the US FAA restricted area covered the Crimea - not the Donetsk Area. - Despite the restricted area, why would a civil airline fly through a war zone? Will carriers in other volatile areas, such as near Iraq and Syria heed this lesson? Or do they need to? [NOTE: Bec ause of code shares in airline alliances many of the passengers didn't realize they were on a Malaysian Airlines flight rather than a KLM Flight] -I will bet that litigators are already on their way to the airport. (En Espanol:) - Un BUK SAM es un sistema bastante sofisticado y es poco probable que sería en manos de los insurgentes no entrenados. Como un general retirado de los EE.UU. commento - "Este no fue un grupo de chicos en un garaje." - Putin será difícil de explicar esto. - Contrariamente a los informes de la zona restringida EE.UU.FAA cubrió la Crimea - no el Área de Donetsk. - A pesar de la zona restringida, ¿por qué una línea aérea civil, volar a través de una zona de guerra? Para ahorrar combustible? ¿Las empresas aereas de otras áreas volátiles, como cerca de Irak y Siria deben prestar atención a esta lección? ¿O es que necesitan? -Yo apuesto a que los litigantes ya están de camino al aeropuerto. - Esto podría acabar con Malaysian Airlines igual que Pan Am 103 también acabó con Pan Am. - Cerca de 300 almas perdidas. - Oraciones.

MIA gets black Lab Retrievers to help screen passengers - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

MIA gets black Lab Retrievers to help screen passengers - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.comhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/03/3379700/mia-gets-black-lab-retrievers.html

The use of dogs adds another layer in security - it is random and is a factor that terrorists have to include in their penetration plans - The basic question they have to ask themselves is: "Do we feel lucky today about this target?"  Hopefully coming to an airport you use soon. 

One thing about the Boston Bombing on April 15th - terrorists do not necessarily look like people from the Middle East - and terrorists: radical jihadists; radical nationalists; and extremists come from areas such as Russia, the Balkans, Southeast Asia and here in the US.  These dogs should help deter and make airports a "harder target."