Oct 23, 2007 8:17 am US/Eastern
MIA Employing New Bomb Detection Technology
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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MIA using new bomb detection technology.
CBS
Another first for Miami International Airport; new bomb detection equipment designed to make the terminal safer for both the employees and the thousands of travelers which pass through it on a daily basis.
For months, security officials at MIA have been testing a new system that scans airport employees and now they've decided to subscribe to the service for $39-thousand a year that puts a bomb technician at their fingertips 24 hours a day.
Born out of a 1999 bust where dozens of MIA employees were arrested for smuggling drugs, weapons, and explosives, employees must now walk through metal detectors and have their lunch bags and identity cards scanned.
With the new bomb detection technology, when a suspicious item shows up inside a bag passing through a scanner inside the terminal, a bomb tech in New York can be contacted immediately with the click of a mouse and assess the seriousness of the situation.
"When you have a better mouse, as we are seeing today with the terrorist threats and what have you, you've gotta build a better mouse trap," said MIA's Mark Henderson, "and that's what you've got with this system."
Henderson says he believes the system will not only help eliminate false alarms that force terminal evacuations which sometimes cause passengers to miss flights, it will also stop a disaster.
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