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Westchester Airport to Install New Body Scanner
The $170,000 machine, which detects "anomalies" such as a metallic item, liquid or explosive, is a second-generation model, meaning that it does not show body details like the first generation of airport body scanners.
Following the CIA's unsettling discovery that al-Qaida has developed a new type of underwear bomb that can pass through metal scanners undetected, the Transportation Security Administration has announced that it will soon be installing a new L-3 Communications ProVision ATD human imaging machine at .
According to a report in the CT Post, the airport will take delivery of the new scanner this week. The $170,000 machine, which detects "anomalies" such as a metallic item, liquid or explosive, is a second-generation model — meaning that it does not show body details like the first generation of airport body scanners, which some travelers have dubbed "nude-o-scopes."
The TSA reportedly plans to purchase 275 of the second generation body scanners and install them at US airports this year. It has already installed about 570 body scanners at approximately 130 airports nationwide, according to the CT Post report.
Westchester Airport was in the news last week after airport officials noted that trees growing along the Greenwich town border .
