FlightSafety Introduces Kidnapping Prevention Course
The program teaches pre-travel planning skills and counter-surveillance techniques.
FlightSafety International recently launched a course aimed at preventing corporate aircraft passengers and crews traveling abroad from becoming kidnap victims. Security consulting and threat-management firm Skydas Group leads the two-day abduction-prevention course, which focuses on teaching pre-travel planning skills and counter-surveillance techniques in addition to ways to thwart a kidnap attempt.
“You may have an overnight in Mexico City, Djibouti, or other places where dropping out of the sky in a $1 million to $60 million airplane automatically puts you on a target list for international terrorists or crimes of opportunity,” said Skydas Group CEO Mike Briant. “While the primary target is the high-net-worth individual, support staff like pilots are also targets. If they have the pilot, they [can get to] the primary target.”
Offered monthly at FlightSafety’s Atlanta learning center, the course comprises 15 modules and wraps up with a field exercise in which attendees attempt to thwart a simulated kidnapping or attack as well as learn to discover technical surveillance devices. Skydas Group can also conduct the course at an FBO or corporate site.