Showing posts with label Russian Airport blast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian Airport blast. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Terahertz was needed to prevent the Russian Airport blast





My Note: Looks like I spoke too soon today, about no "news" related to THz today.
I was actually writing the last piece when news of the Russian airport explosion, came over the wires. What a horrible human tragedy. (I offer my condolences to those who lost loved ones, or suffered injuries).
The Advanced Photonix, hand-held wand, coupled with the T-Ray 4000,  would have likely prevented this explosion. It's almost certain the newly proposed "anomaly detection system"(see related story link  below), would have prevented this. Let's just hope that the work with IQT, to develop this low-cost anomaly detection system, with API and the Department of Transportation Administration,  is making progress, and it can be implemented in major airports across the world in the very near future.
 http://terahertztechnology.blogspot.com/2010/11/advanced-photonix-to-engineer-low-cost.html

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and IVAN SEKRETAREV, Associated Press Nataliya Vasilyeva And Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press 8 mins ago
MOSCOW – An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing at least 31 people and wounding up to 145 as it coated the terminal in blood. The Russian president called it a terror attack.
The mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by a suicide bomber, the state RIA Novosti news agency reported. Other Russian media reports said the bomb was packed with shrapnel, screws and ball bearings.
The terminal at Domodedovo Airport was engulfed by smoke and splattered with body parts. Amateur video posted on YouTube showed a pile of bodies on the floor, and other bodies scattered around. Luggage lay strewn across the ground and several small fires burned. A dazed man in a suit pushed a baggage cart through the carnage.
"From the preliminary information we have, it was a terror attack," President Dmitry Medvedev told officials in a televised briefing, saying it was clear that security had been breached