New Course Focuses on Ways to Thwart Kidnapping

FlightSafety International has launched a course aimed at helping corporate aircraft passengers and crews traveling abroad from becoming kidnap victims, the New York-based training firm recently announced. The two-day abduction-prevention course is led by security-consulting and threat-management firm Skydas Group in partnership with FlightSafety.

“It will help [travelers] to develop the core skill sets needed to prevent or avoid being targeted by hostiles while traveling at home or abroad,” said FlightSafety senior vice president of sales and marketing Steve Gross.

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The course comprises 15 modules designed to prevent successful attacks, including extremist and criminal methodology, travel preplanning and checklists, the attack cycle, surveillance detection skills, personal defense, information security, surveillance detection routes, surveillance point recognition, security checkpoints abroad, airport security, hotel safety, and home and family security. 

The program 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. Further, they learn how to lose a mobile surveillance team and avoid static surveillance points.