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This is also a method similar to that in emergency management as All-Hazard planning. You’ll also want to develop messaging for your vendors and a third set of communications to provide to the media and for public consumption. Picking a Spokesperson.
If terrorists have used drones as weapons before and airport attacks generate a large amount of media coverage, it was obvious that a drone attack on an airport was inevitable. I also think the first response to a new hazard is usually overcautious.
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