Scanners at Delhi airport fail to detect explosives, guns
A high-level inspection of body scanners at the Delhi airport has thrown shocking results with the scanners failing to detect powerful explosives like RDX and PETN and other assault weapons.
A high-level inspection of body scanners at the Delhi airport has thrown shocking results with the scanners failing to detect powerful explosives like RDX and PETN and other assault weapons.
Exactly one month after Chris Liu posted videos to YouTube showing what he calls “critical security flaws,” the new chairman of a House subcommittee said he will call Transporation Security Administration (TSA) leaders to Capitol Hill for an explanation.
I think the issue here is there’s a major national security problem that Chris has helped to expose. We can have an intelligent dialogue about real security, or we can talk about smoke and mirrors.
It was enough for TSA to show up at the home of the person capturing those images with four Sky Marshals and two sheriff’s deputies, and confiscate the man’s handgun which they had issued to him because he was authorized to carry weapons as part of the government’s armed pilots program. They also ordered him to remove the video from YouTubeI
While tens of thousands of people go through security check points everyday at SFO, thousands of airport employees are allowed to skip it. It’s an issue that bothers an airline pilot so much, he took his cell phone camera and videoed an airport worker.
The result is an emerging consensus among experts and lawmakers that the checkpoint-heavy approach — searching nearly every passenger — may not be the most effective.
Man walks onto plane with loaded handgun while other stopped over harmless liquids