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I worked on a disaster response planning project in an aerospace context with the assistance of independent consultants that helped us with our risk assessment. In this project, the government holding jurisdiction (western but non-US) forced us to modify our risk assessment to artificially increase the risk of attack by disaffected individuals (terrorists) despite the risk assessment having been done using industry standard methodologies and appropriate data. The rumours at the time indicated that there was pressure being applied indirectly from the US government.

Have you had government agencies interfere in similar ways with your own planning? Do you have any experience you can share with how terrorism is treated differently in disaster planning compared with other risks?

Thank you for your insight.

Do you have any opinions or comments you can make on Malaysia Airlines response to the MH370 and MH17 incidents?

Of particular interest to me is the cooperation with domestic and foreign agencies during a response to a complex incident.