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  The Federal Aviation Act Of 1958   The new and innovative technologies that came up during the 1950s implemented a massive increase in the demand for airline services and created the national airspace in the U.S way more crowded than it used to be a few years before. The consequences of increasing civilian air traffic, military aerial activity, and the lack of cooperation between those two strained the government's capacity to regulate air travel safety. (Harris, 2004).  Air traffic control agencies began to expand due to the increasing traffic   On June 30 th , 1956, two airline jets (United and TWA) were cruising on a collision course in uncontrolled airspace and crashed over the Grand Canyon, killing 128 people on board. At that time, this crash was the most extensive loss of life in an aviation accident and raised public concern regarding the significance of aviation safety standards. Due to the significant crash, Congress passed the Airways Modernization Act to estab

  Human Factors and Crew Resource Management (CRM)   Over the years, the relatively young commercial aviation went through significant technological improvements required to ensure the safety of the massive number of its users. For example, as the impact of an airplane accident was growing, so did the warning and protection systems installed on modern commercial jets, causing a significant increase in aircrafts' safety and reliability. (Sanchez, 2019). Even though airplanes today are equipped with the most state-of-the-art technologies, the human factor still occurs in most aircraft accidents. The term human factor covers the science of understanding the properties of human capability, the application of this understanding to the design, development, and deployment of systems and services, and the art of ensuring the successful application of human factor principles into the working environment. (FAA, 2016). Pilot error can result in an accident due to multiple different huma

  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), formed 19 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, deals with a massive number of different types of threats daily. The main goal of the TSA is to ensure a safe and secure environment within and around the airports. Thus, preventing terror attacks against aviation facilities and aircraft hijacking.   During the 9/11 terrorist attack, the weakness of the airports' security across the country was revealed, and the TSA has been founded to establish a higher level of security standards and countermeasures. Unfortunately, as the security level became more sophisticated, so did the terror organizations, trying to find new ways and technics to penetrate these protection layers and threaten the aviation industry worldwide. One of these types of threats is utilizing insiders to gain access through security and get the ability to establish a terrorist attack this way. Every generation of aircraft attackers exploits a new loophole that must be