Word: faa
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...Federal Aviation Administration has been working with two U.S. companies to solve the problem. Starting next summer, the FAA will receive five new devices developed by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. for screening checked luggage. The machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in explosives, touching off a characteristic pattern of gamma rays. In tests conducted last summer at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, the devices spotted more than 95% of suitcases containing test samples of explosive materials. But because they employ dangerous radiation, the machines, which cost as much as $1 million each...
Though the Finnish government subsequently said it knew the identity of the telephone tipster and did not take the warning seriously, the FAA was sufficiently concerned to advise all major U.S. carriers, including Pan Am, of the threat, though the news was not passed on to the general public. After the crash, some bereaved relatives of the victims expressed anger that neither the Government nor the airline had seen fit to caution the public. In response, Government agencies pointed out that they frequently receive warnings of terrorist activity, most of which are meaningless; in fact, more than 100 advisories...
...control is pretty good at both Frankfurt and London, but tarmac security remains a weak spot everywhere," says an industry official. "A bomb with a timing device could have been put into the forward baggage hold." According to Pan Am officials, security was tightened after the airline received the FAA advisory, but they refused to say what was done...
...multiple warheads. They gave their regards to Broadway and Bloomingdale's and proved that all it takes to keep traffic moving in New York is the near imposition of martial law: 6,600 of the city's finest, plus the peacekeeping forces of the U.N., the FBI, the FAA, the KGB, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. Like tourists in for the holidays, the Soviet Union's First Couple took in all the right places, both high (the World Trade Center's 107th-floor observation deck) and low (Times Square's movie district...
...airlines inspected were selected at random, according to FAA officials. The FAA provided no breakdown as to what was found at each airline...