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Schiphol To Install High-Tech Passenger Scanners

December 30, 2009

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will be fitted with high-tech passenger scanners in 2010, a response to the security breach that happened Christmas Day in which a Nigerian man passed through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport security with hidden explosives on his body, Reuters reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded a flight to Detroit, allegedly with explosive powder and a syringe of chemicals hidden in his underwear. He has been charged with attempting to blow up the plane, Northwest Flight 253, just outside of Detroit. Ad Rutten, the chief operating officer of Schiphol Group, told a news conference the airport would make the new microwave detectors compulsory pending approval from European authorities, the Reuters report said. The current generation of scanners only detect metal objects, while the microwave scanners can detect unusual objects on the body and hidden under clothing. Schiphol authorities stopped short of promising to install see-through full-body scanners, citing health concerns.

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