Governor Acts to Bolster Logan Airport Security

Acting Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift named a former corporate executive and ex-Marine to head a panel to improve security at Boston’s Logan International Airport, where hijackers boarded two planes and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center.

Marshall Carter, former chief executive of State Street Corp., will head the commission charged by Swift with “an impartial top-to-bottom review” of the Massachusetts Port Authority, the agency that runs Logan, two other airports and the ports and bridges in the state.

The commission “will report back to me with recommendations for long-term structural changes that have security” as a first priority, Swift told a news conference. “There are no sacred cows, there are no protected fiefdoms in this process.”