Delhi airport scanners will find your assets explosive

New Delhi: The silicon implant may leave the beauteous looking 'explosive' but the compliment could return to haunt the bold and the beautiful who take a flight out of Delhi come July. The Indian authorities are planning to install body scanners at the Delhi Airport on a trial basis and some manufacturers have told them the machines won't recognize silicon implants for what they are. As also, surgical implants such as pacemakers, artificial heart valves and orthopaedic devices. The scanner will indicate that all of these are items concealed on the passenger's person, requiring a closer look!
Leading companies conveyed this to the Indian security and aviation agencies as they evaluate two technologies for possible use. India has been offered two platforms most commonly used abroad — millimeter wave and backs-catter scanner. One provides an X-ray kind of image; the other does not show the body shape.
Is there a solution to the problem? "Body scanners are globally used as secondary level checks. Only people who have emerged as requiring this are made to pass through them. Obviously, common sense will be used with technology while using the scanners and directing people to go there," sources said.
"We're working out a system that takes care of privacy and health issues while not compromising with security in any which way. There may be female personnel to man scanners for ladies and males for men scanners...," said sources.
11/04/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Apr 2010