WASHINGTON (voa) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is scheduled to deliver a speech Wednesday explaining new guidelines for airline security.
Secretary Mineta is expected to encourage the use of new security tools. These could include a computer-assisted passenger profiling system, manual bag searches, bomb-detecting dogs and various types of X-ray systems.
Bag-matching would help ensure no luggage goes on a plane unless the passenger who checked it is aboard. But critics say this may cause unnecessarily long flight delays, and would not thwart suicide bombers who are willing to die anyway.
The Mineta speech comes ahead of a Friday deadline set by the U.S. Congress which calls on air carriers to see that all checked bags are screened for explosives. That concern grew out of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
