Implantando la seguridad de la aviación civil (AVSEC) en talleres de mantenimiento aeronáutico: caso México

Abstract

Civil aviation is one of the most regulated industries in terms of security and it is through the Convention on International Civil Aviation, better known as the Chicago Convention, where methodologies, standards and recommended methods are established for the protection of persons, facilities and their property against attempts or acts of unlawful interference and are derived from legal instruments by international law and the best industry practices.
The organizations dedicated to aeronautical maintenance are not the exception and it was not until the recent reforms of the civil aviation and airport laws, including their regulations, that their application begins to gain special relevance in these providers of complementary services dedicated to aircraft maintenance.
These legal instruments, both internationally and nationally, have traditionally focused on the air transport of people, their belongings and cargo. Therefore, this document seeks to guide aeronautical repair station in the implementation of processes and procedures appropriate to the nature of their activities. It is emphasized that the measures adopted to mitigate risks in the face of illicit interference acts should not follow a securitization approach, since the operations of the repair station differ significantly from those of the concessionaires and permittees of passenger transport and airports.
Securitization is mostly used as a financial tool that allows illiquid assets to be transformed into negotiable securities; however, in the meaning of the word derived from the English "security", in the same way it is transferred to processes through which a particular matter is declared a security problem and that when it is "securitized", a prejudice of the existence of a threat to an object, an interest or a legal good is structured.
Based on documentary and exploratory analysis in ICAO publications, laws, standards, mandatory circulars and recommended practices in the field of civil aviation security, as well as scientific publications on security and risk management from the sociocultural perspective, this study supports the proposal to mitigate in the equation the factors of fear and anguish that could spread possible perpetrators in the face of the possibility of the commission of attempts or acts of unlawful interference in aircraft maintenance workshops given their non-existent records of incidents in Mexico.