Bezpieczeństwo i ochrona w komunikacji lotniczej – technologie w obliczu nowych zagrożeń
Safety and security in air communication: technologies in the face of new threats

Summary/Abstract: The events that began in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, where a virus called COVID-19 was detected, and which, as of the date of this paper, has spanned across almost the entire globe, will undoubtedly change the safety paradigms in air communication. The goal of this paper is to review the technologies that are available for the detection of threats in air transport, including biological agents. The coronavirus pandemic would not have reached its severity in such a short time without the participation of air communication as a transmitter of infected people traveling between all the continents. Apart from the economic consequences for the aviation industry, whose activity in many countries came to a complete standstill during the pandemic, this came about through the decision of governments. It seems that the effects of this pandemic will be far-reaching in security regarding the protection of passengers from biological agents, and will be a necessary element of security system transformation. It should also be emphasised that while the aviation industry has successfully coped with the terrorist threat by introducing and constantly developing new technologies, the biological factor has revealed an almost total helplessness in its detection and prevention of its spread. More importantly, the biological factor is one of many possibilities to carry out an act of terrorism (so-called bioterrorism).

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