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unusual facts about airport security



Da Nang International Airport

The new terminal will include five boarding gates, baggage handling systems, departure and arrivals areas, flight information display system (FIDS), common user terminal equipment (CUTE), fire detection systems and comprehensive public address and security systems, including screening equipment.

Square root biased sampling

Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings.

X-ray generator

Fluoroscopy is used in cases where real-time visualization is necessary (and is most commonly encountered in everyday life at airport security).


see also

Capps

CAPPS or CAPPS I (Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), a U.S. airport security program

Christophe Naudin

Before 1995, he was instructor in aviation security for the French swat police (CRS – Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité) for airport security and border control, before the pre-privatization measures with the equivalent of TSA Transportation Security Administration.

France-Albert René

Shortly after leaving their Royal Swazi National Airways aircraft, an airport security guard spotted a Kalashnikov assault rifle in their luggage; the discovery launched a gun battle in which hostages were taken.

Hunter McKay

Hunter arrived to New Zealand with sister, Sophie (Kimberley Crossman) in December 2006 and instantly got in trouble with airport security, much to parents Callum (Peter Mochrie) and Justine's (Laurie Foell) anger.

Invision

InVision Technologies, formerly a public company, a manufacturer and seller of airport security screening devices to detect explosives in baggage.

James C. Sharf

In 2006, he was awarded the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for developing the valid, legally defensible employment tests used by the Transportation Security Administration to hire fifty-thousand airport security screeners nationwide in 2002.

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