full body scan

full body scan





The minister said that the ordinary procedures were followed properly in handling the Christmas Day Abdulmutallab Omar Faruk, a 23-year old Nigerian accused of attempting to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

"We will make these machines, about 15 in total available for flights to the United States within three weeks," Guusje ter Horst, told a news conference in The Hague.

Ter Horst said normal metal detectors could not detect explosives and the use of full body scanners would have helped prevent Abdulmuttalab to take explosives on the plane.

He warned that there was no 100 percent guarantee that the new detectors would have allowed the airport security to catch.

Whole body scanners, unlike standard metal detectors arc currently used in airports around the world use radio waves to generate an image of the body anomalies can be seen through clothing.