A device has been created that can scan entire planes for contraband, bombs and weapons.
The mobile X-ray scanner, heralded as the world’s first ‘airplane scanner’, sweeps down a plane and can detect various objects inside.
While the radiation emitted by the scanner is not safe yet for humans to be in the plane when it is operated, the company behind it thinks it could become a vital tool in aircraft safety
The Roboscan 2M Aeria is being developed by Romanian company MB Telecom (MBT).
It costs €3 million (£2.1 million, $3.2 million), reported The Times, and is apparently already being used to check trucks at borders in Eastern Europe, where it has helped seize 76,000 packs of illegal cigarettesOn its website, MBT says the Aeria is ‘the very first solution for aircraft security inspection.’
It can scan planes from small private jets to medium-sized commercial airplanes.
The company notes that, while passengers and their luggage are thoroughly inspected at airports, there is no such inspection process for jets arriving at small private airports with low security.
But with their device, the company says this ‘gap’ in aviation security can be plugged, and it can scan an entire plane in about 20 minute
