This article details just a few of the many cases of aviation insider threats globally. Other examples abound. The Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (LMMIA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is another airport of concern, with law enforcement uncovering a number of drug smuggling operations involving insiders at LMMIA in recent years. However, this article does not cover the full extent of the threat. Aviation insiders susceptible to working for smugglers could also potentially be recruited by terrorist organisations; insiders seemingly played a key role in two major recent plots, helping operatives to move bombs past security. Most significant is the 2015 bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 out of Egypt's Sinai, which killed all 224 people aboard. A suicide operative was also able to move a bomb past security with apparent inside assistance in the 2016 bombing of Daallo Airlines Flight 159 out of Mogadishu, though he fortunately only succeeded in killing himself.
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