Beijing: All airports in China will be installed with liquid detecting scanners before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a report said on Friday.
“All civil airports will be required to install at least one such scanner starting from next year,” head of the public security division under the General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC), Yang Chengfeng said.
Yang said CAAC had been looking for effective methods to detect liquid explosives ever since British police said in August they had foiled a plot to blow up aircraft with such devices. “Liquid explosives have become a big threat to aviation security globally,” he said.
The current method of detection in Chinese airports like smelling or asking the traveller to take a sip of the liquid takes a much longer time.
China now bans almost all liquids and gels aboard an aircraft, except food for travelling babies and medicines if the prescription is in the ticket holder’s name.
CAAC has required all liquids to be checked in airplanes following a crash on May 7, 2002, off the northern city of Dalian, which killed 112 people. The accident was blamed on a passenger setting fire to gasoline carried in soft drink cans.
“All civil airports will be required to install at least one such scanner starting from next year,” head of the public security division under the General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC), Yang Chengfeng said.
Yang said CAAC had been looking for effective methods to detect liquid explosives ever since British police said in August they had foiled a plot to blow up aircraft with such devices. “Liquid explosives have become a big threat to aviation security globally,” he said.
The current method of detection in Chinese airports like smelling or asking the traveller to take a sip of the liquid takes a much longer time.
China now bans almost all liquids and gels aboard an aircraft, except food for travelling babies and medicines if the prescription is in the ticket holder’s name.
CAAC has required all liquids to be checked in airplanes following a crash on May 7, 2002, off the northern city of Dalian, which killed 112 people. The accident was blamed on a passenger setting fire to gasoline carried in soft drink cans.