Assessment of safeguards to protect civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference at internatial airports especially focused on České Budějovice airport.

This diploma thesis provides a basic description and an indication of technical and legislative issues that are closely related to the safety of civil aviation. Well known accidents related to illegal acts are also described in this paper. The aim of this paper is to assess the current personnel?s state and knowledge relating to civil aviation security at international airports, focusing on the airport in České Budějovice. Two hypotheses are presented H ? 1 and H ? 2, which are evaluated using statistical survey and to perform structural analysis of security at international airports in the Czech Republic and structural analysis of security system of LKCS and then compare them, or possibly suggest additional measures that would increase security at the airport. This paper evaluates the level of knowledge on the basis of a questionnaire survey of personnel of České Budějovice airport and Prague - Ruzyně Airport on civil aviation security issues concerning illegal acts and compares this level of knowledge by application of statistical survey. Structural analysis of the security system and legislation used in international civil aviation in the Czech Republic and also analysis of security system according to the applicable legislation at the international nonpublic airport in České Budějovice are performed. These analyses are compared and evaluated. The analysis of results and the confirmation or refutation of hypotheses H ? 1 and H ? 2 are presented in the discussion including suggestion of precautions that could improve the security at the České Budějovice airport