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60 full body scanners at Amsterdam airport

Amsterdam, Netherlands - Soon on all flights bound for the USA

Amsterdam-Shiphol airport is going to install 60 new full body scanners in the upcoming months, so replying to charges with having light security checks, following a failed terrorist attack on a Delta Airlines' flight bound for Detroit at Christmas (see AVIONEWS). The airport has already begun to use 15 of these devices, which are capable to see through a person's clothes to check for weapons, packages...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1113221
Rome, Italy, 01/05/2010 17:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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