Yusra Farzan recalls growing up post 9/11
Enhanced airport security, fewer Americans flying, longer wait times in airport security lines
Military police from the Massachusetts National Guard on their first day of duty at Boston's Logan International Airport on Oct. 5, 2001. Several thousand National Guard troops were called up around the U.S. to ensure airport security in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta meets with the CEOs of major U.S. airlines, including U.S. Airways CEO Rakesh Gangwal , and Federal Aviation Administration Director Jane Garvey on Nov. 15, 2001, at the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. Mineta called the meeting to discuss improvements in airport security.
This still frame from television footage obtained by ABC News and released Feb. 7, 2002, shows a shoe worn by shoe bomber Richard Reid.Investigators later said that Reid had enough explosive material to blow a hole in the fuselage of the plane, but that rainy weather and Reid's foot perspiration made the fuse too damp to ignite. Reidin October 2002 and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences and 110 years, with no possibility of parole.
"The X-rays take images of it from all sides," says Scovel,"so it does an all-around picture of whatever goes inside so you see it from every point of view." She says the 3D images are so detailed that"I can tell you the difference between Irish Spring and Dove soap — yes, I can. And officers that have been here a while can do the same thing. You can tell the difference between an Apple and a Dell laptop; they're very detailed.
Pilots and their unions continue to push for additional cockpit barriers and fortifications to protect them from possible attacks from outside the cockpit.British authorities disrupted a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives on board 10 commercial aircrafts bound from London to various cities in the U.S. and Canada. U.K. prosecutors alleged the would-be bombers prepared to disguise the explosives as soft drinks in 500-milliliter branded plastic bottles.
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