MPs want scanning equipment, wine & beer on flights

NEW DELHI: Parliamentarians have asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to convey to private airport developers the need for installing latest scanning equipment to prevent air travellers from embarrassing physical frisking.
The MPs especially Congress Parliamentarian Madhu Goud Yaskhi raised this issue at the Consultative Committee meeting earlier this week whereby incidents about embarrassing physical frisking were narrated.
The MP from Nizamabad contended that if the airports had been privatised, the airport developers should be asked to install modern equipment to avoid such kind of unpleasantness, official sources said.
The Parliamentarians cited the cases of foreign airports where a passenger was asked to pass through a metal detector and followed by hand-held scanners.
11/05/08 PTI/Economic Times

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General May 2008