Full-body scanners to be introduced at Heathrow

British airport operator BAA said today it would move quickly to install full-body scanners at London's Heathrow airport following the failed Christmas Day attack on a US-bound plane. "Now that the government has given the go-ahead, we will introduce...

British airport operator BAA said today it would move quickly to install full-body scanners at London's Heathrow airport following the failed Christmas Day attack on a US-bound plane.

"Now that the government has given the go-ahead, we will introduce full-body scanners as soon as practical," a spokesman for BAA, owned by Spain's Ferrovial, told Reuters.

He said BAA, which operates six British airports, was just looking at introducing the scanners at Heathrow -- Europe's busiest airport by passenger numbers -- at this stage.

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