How Airport Security Works

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How Airport Security Works
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The First Line of Defense

• metal detectors
• bomb-sniffing dogs
• possibly a search of your clothes and luggage
• fences, barriers and walls
• Parking areas closed

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Who Are You?

• photo ID
• biometrics - checking fingerprints, retinal
  scans, and facial patterns using complex computer
  systems to determine if someone is who they say
  they are
• Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System-
  more personal information from travelers when
  they book their flights
• Has your luggage been in your possession at all
  times?
• Has anyone given you anything or asked you to
  carry on or check any items for them?

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Step Through, Please Metal Detector

• pulse induction (PI).

http//micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/detect
or/
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Step Through, PleaseX-Ray System

• This is what you checked luggage looks like in
  while going through an x ray machine.

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New X Ray

http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17296248/
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• TSA explanation of body scanners
• http//www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/ait/index.shtm
• Changes to body scanners due to privacy concerns
• http//gcn.com/articles/2010/09/08/full-body-scann
  er-concern-solved-with-avatar.aspx

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Bomb Dogs

• http//archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/01/18/re
  c.bomb.sniffing.dogs.02/index.html
• http//www.bombdogdetection.com/bomb-detection-dog
  .html

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Now Boarding

• You Can't Take it With You
• There are a number of items that you cannot carry
  on a plane, and some of that can't be packed in
  your bags, either
• Explosives Fireworks, ammunition, sparklers,
  matches, gunpowder, signal flares
• Weapons Guns, swords, pepper spray, mace,
  martial arts weapons, swords, knives with blades
  of any length
• Pressurized containers Hair spray, oxygen tanks,
  propane tanks, spray paint, insect repellant
• Household items Flammable liquids, solvents,
  bleach, pool chemicals, flammable perfume in
  bottles 16 ounces or larger
• Poisons Insecticides, pesticides, rat poison,
  arsenic, cyanide
• Corrosives Car batteries, acids, lye, drain
  cleaner, mercury
• Liquids

http//www.airsafe.com/issues/security/tsa_broc.pd
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Last line of defenseAir Marshals

• An air marshal is a federal agent disguised to
  look like regular passenger

• Quick Statistics
• On average, a Federal Air Marshal
• Flies 181 days per year
• Flies 15 days per month
• Spends 900 hours in an aircraft per year
• Spends five hours in an aircraft per day

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• Only person shot by an air marshal
• http//www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S4215232
• http//www.dopedog.com/videos.html