NewsLocal News

Actions

New scanners for screening passenger bags at Green Bay airport

New scanners for screening passenger bags at Green Bay airport
Posted
and last updated

GREEN BAY (NBC 26) -- Passengers flying out of Green Bay's Austin Straubel International Airport had their belongings screened with new high-tech scanners Monday.

The TSA demonstrated their new three-dimensional scanners that are state of the art, showing security agents a three-dimensional image.

"Much like what you see in a Dr.'s office or hospital with the CAT scanning, it's identical technology. We can look at an area of a bag in particular, an item of interest, what we refer to as a potential or obvious threat, and actually get up and close with it through the x-ray technology," explained Mark Lendvay, Federal Security Director of TSA in Wisconsin.

Each unit has roughly a 5-year life cycle and costs about $330,000. The scanners are already being used in Madison and Milwaukee.