Nigeria to buy 3-D full body scanners to screen air passengers after airliner bomb attempt
By APWednesday, December 30, 2009
Nigeria airports to buy 3-D full body scanners
LAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian official says the nation will purchase 3-D, full body scanners after a man passed through Nigeria’s biggest airport before trying to bring down a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day.
Civil Aviation Authority chief Harold Demuren says he hopes the machines will be installed early next year.
The announcement came hours after Dutch officials said they would immediately begin to use full body scanners on flights headed to the U.S. It is unclear if Nigeria will use the same technology as the Netherlands.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, passed through Lagos and Amsterdam before attempting to detonate concealed explosives on a flight as it prepared to land in Detroit.
