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With the season of vacation trips now loaded booming, the Security Administration Transportation (TSA) will see more and more people go through itsSafety control points. The agency always evolves its practices to increase safety and efficiency - when traveling, including recent updates of theTSA Program Precheck and updatedscreening process. But after an incident last week when a man managed to sneak a razor on a right board on a flight, the agency brings changes. The next day, the ASD announced that it would deploy "new X -ray technology" to the control points across the country. Read the rest to find out how TSA works to avoid future incidents.

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If you have already crossed an airport safety line, you have a general understanding of what can and cannot bebrought with you. The 3-1-1 rule for liquids always applies, and everything that is dangerous will be confiscated and could also fall asleep in difficulty. Nevertheless, the potentially problematic elements sometimes travel.

November 21, 41 years oldMerrill Darrell Fackrell mounted aJetBlue Flight At JFK airport in New York, according to a press release from the Utah American prosecutor's office. Fackrell was sitting next to a married couple, and during the flight, he "placed his hand in front of the woman's screen and told him to suspend his film", the press release said, citing the criminal complaint filed by the office of the United States prosecutor. The woman then removed her headphones and noticed that Fackrell held "what appeared to her like a knife, a few centimeters from her skin at her throat / neck."

According to the allegations of the complaint, the husband of the woman was able to inform them among the on -board agents at the front of the plane, and the woman "rushed so that the alley escapes," escaping the attempts to Fackrell to stop it. The members of the driving team obtained the article, which was identified as a razor on a right edge with a wooden handle and a two -inch blade.

"The crew members responded by working to defuse the situation and informed the police who met the flight to Salt Lake City," JetBlue said in a statement at ABC News. "The security of our customers and crew members is JetBlue's first priority, and we will support the police during their investigation."

A reason for the incident has not yet been announced, but Fackrell was accused of having carried a weapon on a plane and aggression with a dangerous weapon in the jurisdiction of the United States special aircraft the next day, the November 22. How exactly the razor blade is not clear that security is not clear, but the TSA confirmed that it did not take the situation lightly.

In a press release provided to NBC News, the agency said it "introduced new X -ray technology in more airports to improve our ability toBetter detect items like the one used in this incident. "Although the agency did not provide additional details on technology, earlier this year, it made its debutcomputed tomography (CT) Scanning machines.

"Technology is similar to CT technology used in the medical field and research shows that CT is theThe most substantial technology Available today for airport control points, "according to the TSA website. Machines are deployed" Airport by airport ","Existing replacement Advanced technology machines (AT), the points guy reported in April.

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Hand luggage screening technology was only 2-D before the introduction of CT, which can now produce 3D rotary images, which is particularly useful for "improved detection of threat items", indicates the website TSA. "Like existing CT technology used for verified luggage, machines create such a clear image of the content of a bag that computers can automatically detect explosives, including liquids."

According to the website, when CT is fully deployed, this will also allow travelers to leave their laptops and liquids in hand luggage. At the control points equipped with CT, laptops are allowed to stay inside the bags.

The razor blades are not the only dangerous element that goes through control points, as those responsible continue to find firearms in hand luggage.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

On November 29, TSA officials at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania were forced torecall the passengers Do not bring firearms by safety. In 2022, the TSA stopped5,832 firearms At the checkpoints, 88% of which were loaded, reported CNBC. This number is close to the 5,972 found in 2021, reaching an average of 17 guns per day.

Records have already been broken this year in Harrisburg, where eight guns have been captured. At Tampa International Airport, 116 firearms were confiscated,already up According to the number of 105 of last year, Fox 13 News reported.

Travelers often claim that the pistol has been accidentally left in their luggage, butKaren Keys-Turner, The Federal TSA Security Director for Harrisburg International Airport, says it is the owner's responsibility to know the location of their firearm "at any time". It is worth familiar with laws and regulations, because bringing a handgun to a security checkpoint can lead to thousands of dollars in fines and the abolition ofTSA Precheck status.

According to the TSA, even if you have a hidden weapon permit, the rules still apply and the firearms must be "unloaded, wrapped in a locked and hard and declared box to the airline" at the ticket office. The airline is then necessary to ensure that the pistol moves in recorded luggage "in the belly of the plane, never in the cabin of the plane".