Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on
U.S.-bound flights after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying
from Amsterdam to Detroit.
An official at JFK Airport, shows items confiscated from passengers which could
be used as weapons on aircraft in New York on August 27, 2003. Items included
everything from the simple Swiss Army Knife to scissors, handguns and chainsaws.
The security scan works on the basis of millimetre wave technology. When the
scan is made, the waves are reflected on the body, thus revealing any objects
the person is carrying.
A file photo of a scan shows a person carrying a knife on his back while
standing in the new security scan at Schiphol airport, Netherlands.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer holds a radiation detector showing
a level-nine reading of radiation, as passengers arrive at Miami International
airport.
An immigration officer's computer screen shows the mugshots of two al Qaeda
suspects as passengers line up to be processed at Managua's International
Airport May 24, 2005.
Jeska Stolle tests the three-dimensional (3D) face scanner used to register
individual details of passengers at the SAC Siemens airport centre in Fuerth
near Nuremberg.
In 2008, Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travellers
the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden
weapons, though the new device cannot yet sniff out explosives.
Clear, a private security company, launched their Fast Pass Lanes in San
Francisco International Airport and it enables members to go through a faster
security check point line.
Passengers, not flying to the U.S., put items into clear plastic bags before
going through security procedures at Gatwick Airport, in southern England
December 28, 2009.
