Schiphol Airport to Operate New 60 Scanner
Company Info August 15th, 2009
Dutch Schiphol Airport will have 60 new full body scanners to cover all U.S. airlines, destination, airport operator Schiphol Group announced Monday following the failed bombings on Christmas Day on a flight from Amsterdam. Scanner-scanner that, for 150,000 euros (216,000 dollars) a unit, will be placed in Schiphol “in a few months to come”, spokeswoman Mirjam Snoerwang told AFP.
60 tools to filter the image is in addition to whole body scanner 15 which has placed at the airport, which works with voice and gelommbang technologies that have been used for several purposes, the U.S. airline during the last three years. “Following the incident on goal-Detroit flight, the airport decided to increase the number of scanners in order to protect all flights,” explained Snoerwang.
The group leader Jos Nijhuis, as quoted in that statements, said the move was taken by the National Coordinating orders to the Anti-Terrorism, government agencies. Nijhuis explained that the passengers to other destinations from the United States are not routinely checked, responding to a complaint that states a journalist had tried to bring up hypodermic syringe penerbanagn from Schipol to London. “That we now be described in a number of English-language newspapers as an ‘airport terror’ is not true at all,” he said.
