Security
Drug smuggling case calls for tighter security
How would you feel if criminals tried to use your aircraft for international drug smuggling, dragging you and your company into a long-running legal drama?

How would you feel if criminals tried to use your aircraft for international drug smuggling, dragging you and your company into a long-running legal drama?  Irish businessman Jim Mansfield knows exactly how this feels.

Last year his Cessna Citation VI was raided by Belgian police and his two pilots were thrown in jail for almost a month. The alleged drug smugglers have yet to face trial, but the furor over how Mansfield’s aircraft came to be used by them has prompted tough questioning by politicians about security standards at smaller general aviation airports in Europe.