ITALY: NEW DETECTION DEVICE REVEALS CONTENTS OF PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE

Record ID: 647296

  • Title: ITALY: NEW DETECTION DEVICE REVEALS CONTENTS OF PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE
  • Date: 21st June 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV Crowds in airport building 0.08 2. SV Destination beard 0.11 3. SV Baggage 0.14 4. CV X-ray equipment PAN baggage on conveyor 0.26 5. SV Monitor screen registering contents 0.32 6. CV Gun placed in brief case 0.37 7. CV Monitor screen 0.40 8. SV Case placed in front of detector 0.43 9. CV Monitor reveals gun & screwdriver inside case 0.48 10. SV Official, PAN monitor screen 1.04 11. SV Other cases passing detector 1.09 12. SV Official searching hand baggage 1.14 13. LV Man walks through detector frame & searched 1.22 14. SV Customs official talking on radio-telephone 1.26 Initials SGM/1200 SGM/1227 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th July 1972 13:00
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  • Location: Rome, Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVABDAKSZIQQMVB9AZ24XGY7QAG
  • Story Text: A new device demonstrated at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport on Tuesday (20 June) is able to detect nay metallic contents in passenger luggage. As an item of baggage passes the device on a conveyor it is scanned electronically, and a still picture of the contents displayed on a television monitor screen until the next piece of baggage passes. The detector has been specially developed to cope with the increasing number of bomb and hijacking attempts on passenger aircraft. A modification of the detector, meanwhile, is shaped like a narrow archway or frame, through which a passenger walks. Any firearms or metal hidden on his person is then quickly revealed on a screen. The invention was referred to by Italian officials after the shooting of civilians at Lydda Airport, Israel, earlier this month. Then, they said they hoped to unveil a device which might have prevented such an incident.

    The United Nations' Security Council, meanwhile, in a statement issued on Tuesday (21 June), condemned actions "directed against the safety of civil aviation" and called on states to "take measures to prevent them, and to deal with those who commit such acts".
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