A Chattanoogan who left as head of the National Transportation Safety Board just months before the 9/11 terror attacks says the No. 1 risk for commercial aviation today are drones.
Jim Hall, who ended nearly seven years as chairman of the NTSB in January 2001, said there are worries about the deployment of drones as military devises for use against commercial aircraft.
“As the technology grows, drones will be a concern,” he said in a telephone interview this week as the nation commemorates the 9/11 events.
At the same time, Hall said security at airports and aboard passenger planes today is a lot better than 20 years ago when it was in “a deplorable state” in America.
“It was that system that caused 9/11,” he said, calling the attacks “very preventable.”