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Potential blow to Schiphol body scanner planFriday 15 January 2010 Europe's probable new commissioner for transport Siim Kallas has criticised plans by some EU countries, including the Netherlands, to bring in full body scanners for plane users, Trouw reports on Friday. Answering questions from European MPs, Kallas said body scanners did offer advanced technology for improving air safety but that 'we first have to complete research into the legal and privacy aspects over the next few months.' The Netherlands plans to introduce the scanners as soon as possible, following the attempt to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. Home affairs minister Guusje ter Horst said on December 30th that scanners for all flights to the US would be introduced within three weeks, once they had been fitted with new software to make them fully automated. 'I support EU-wide rules about their introduction,' Kallas told MEPs. 'No single measure gives 100% security. Body scanners are not the solution for everything.' Dutch Christian Democrat MEP Corien Wortmann told the paper she backed introducing body scanners for risky flights. 'We need security information as well, but body scanners are certainly a part of the security set-up,' she said. Kallas' appointment to the Commission still has to be approved by MEPs. © DutchNews.nl
My only question: what is to be considered a risky flight? This plane was not bound for Libia, Tel Aviv, Jeddah or Washingon but DETROIT. By Michael Koperniak | January 15, 2010 4:37 PM I do fly one or twice a year to holland, and I must tel you that it is a scary thing to know that there wil be someone on the plane who like to kill you the european commisioner must be out of his wits, not wanting to have people body scanned, i and my fam are all for it, better safe than sorry By engeltje watson | January 15, 2010 7:40 PM I can end all of this and save the governments of the world a LOT of money. It's actually very simple. Require every passenger on every flight to (1) eat a pork sandwich before they can enter the airport, and (2) all passengers must fly naked. I think implementing those two rules would make flying much safer and lest costly. By Tim | January 18, 2010 10:51 PM How many planes were subject for terror attacks for past 10 years? The threat is exaggerated by scanner lobby and by authorities, who want to control people by terrorizing them by requesting their permanent submission for checks and surveillance. By Michael Petroff | January 18, 2010 10:55 PM
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It is a matter of size ,I guess.The smaller the less support.
By pieter van Schaaij | January 15, 2010 3:45 PM