Schiphol airport to buy 60 body scanners (Photo: ANP) |
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is buying 60 additional body scanners. The airport currently has 15 but wants to expand full-body scans in the wake of the failed bombing of a US airliner that departed from Schiphol.
The powder the Nigerian bomber had concealed under his clothes went undetected. Some security analysts believe a body scanner would have detected them. Each of the body scanners costs 150,000 euros. Other countries are also seeking to subject more passengers to body scans.
The news comes as preliminary figures show that the number of travellers passing through Schiphol in 2009 fell by 43,5 million people, a 8,4 percent drop over the preceding year, the biggest drop ever.
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