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Body scans eventually mandatory, TSA official says
Chicago
Tribune
Friday, March 19th, 2010
CHICAGO — All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually
be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes,
just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part
of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal
transportation security chief in Chicago said Monday.
As a body-scanning machine was used to screen passengers for
the first time on Monday at O’Hare International Airport,
federal and city officials said they expect the airport will
receive more body-imaging technology later this year to help
address one of the biggest terrorism threats to commercial aviation,
suicide bombers on planes.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to send hundreds
of the scanners, which cost between $130,000 and $170,000 each,
to all major U.S. airports. The scanners use low-dose X-ray
to go underneath clothing and display weapons, explosives and
other objects that might be hidden on the body, above the skin.
So far, 21 airports are equipped with the units and nine more
are slated to receive the scanners soon, officials said. The
security agency plans to deploy 450 body scanners to an undetermined
number of airports this year.
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