ABSTRACT
The Federal Aviation Administration’s National Explosive Detection Canine Team Program began in 1972 when a TWA jet bound for Los Angeles from JFK in New York was the subject of a bomb threat. The jet returned to JFK where a bomb-snif ng dog named Brandy found a bomb on the plane just 12 minutes before it was set to detonate. The program began with 40 canine teams at 20 airports in 1973, which grew to nearly 100 teams by the turn of the century. The only police canine known to have died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 was an explosives detection dog named Sirius.2
