Recently, I went on a business trip with our application engineer. Since we were only going to be away for 2 days, we both only had our trolleys and laptop bags with us, both as hand carried luggages.
Part of his meeting agenda was to explain about warranty procedures. For this, he brought with him a tester and a small frequency inverter. In addition, he also brought with him a navigation system since we were going to rent a car when we reached Italy.
We divided all electrical equipment between ourselves. And when our luggages were screened, we were told to step aside and bring everything to a room marked "private".
We were told that we had too much electrical equipment in our luggages and they had to be checked.
They had these thin and small grey sheets which they rubbed on every surface of equipment. According to my colleague, this paper shows if there is any sign of TNT in any of the equipment.
Of course, we were immediately cleared and were allowed to go to our respective gates.
My point? Well, it was very interesting to see first hand how airport security check (beyond liquids and metals through the scanner) for bombs.
In any case, should you be traveling with equipment that aren't that easy to identify, make sure that you do have a few minutes to spare before boarding. Otherwise, you might get held up and miss your flight.
[photo source: tnt]
glad you like my bomb :)
Posted by: jez | September 23, 2007 12:38 PM | Permalink to Comment