Are you being watched or listened to in an aircraft?

We wonder if there is such a thing as privacy on aircrafts the answer is no definitely not the first example that French spies routinely bugged first-class passengers flying with Air France -including Concorde passengers - back in the 1990s.

The idea was that business people relaxing on a long trip, and perhaps enjoying a drink or two, might discuss all manner of commercially sensitive information, oblivious to the possibility of eavesdropping. The motive was economic espionage rather than national security or anti-terrorism.

In 1993, The Independent revealed the existence of a French intelligence document compiled by the Department of Economics, Science and Technology that provided a commercial shopping list for agents, a guide to which industrial secrets France wanted to snaffle from her allies.

The shopping list included British helicopter technology from Westland, solid-rocket booster technology, satellite research and information about high-definition televisions, a technology where European companies lagged far behind America.

Mias conduct TSCM inspections of aircraft and yachts these vessels are regularly used for meetings, discussions and contract delegations the advantage being they can be in tax havens and offshore they can also be in the relevant countries for the tax and law jurisdictions.

However, these vessels are sometimes on a lease or lay dormant in aircraft hangers or docks during non-use periods, and at these times there is very little security on board, Mias has the experience and equipment to conduct TSCM inspections on these vessels quickly and discretely.