Report Cites Major Security Lapses At Newark Airport

[Tesibria]

http://www.wnbc.com/news/3791854/detail.html

POSTED: 3:52 pm EDT October 7, 2004

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Baggage screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport missed one out of every four fake bombs or weapons inspectors tried to sneak past checkpoints in tests this summer, according to confidential inspection reports obtained by The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Security screeners at the airport's nine checkpoints most often missed phony explosive devices hidden in carryon bags sent through X-ray machines, the newspaper reported.

The checkers at Newark, one of the airports breached by terrorist hijackers on 9/11, also failed to detect guns concealed in carryon bags sent through X-rays or carried under the clothing of testers who walked through metal detectors, the report said.

The airport's overall failure rate was 24.8 percent in covert tests conducted between June and September by the federal Transportation Security Administration, which hires the screeners and oversees the nation's airport security.

clip: Not all terminals were equally bad at the detection tests. The most failures occurred at Terminal C, where Continental Airlines flights originate and screeners missed 33 percent of contraband at the terminal's three checkpoints.

Screeners at the Terminal A checkpoint that was breached by terrorists on United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11, had a 27.8 percent failure rate, slightly higher than average.

The best results were logged at two checkpoints in Terminal B, where 15 percent of bombs or weapons got aboard the aircraft in the tests.

[DeminDC]

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