New Liverpool Airport scanner breakdown causes flight chaos
10.07.10
Passengers missed their flights at Liverpool Airport this week after new X-ray scanners broke down, the Echo reports. The machines malfunctioned yesterday - at one of the airport’s peak times for weekend getaways.
The airport is going through a huge re-fit and opened a new ‘central search’ area this week. Six new Rapiscan security scanners were installed on Wednesday, but four broke down yesterday lunchtime. One was fixed quickly, but the other three were out of action for almost an hour, causing huge queues and some passengers to miss their flights.
The airport confirmed seven passengers missed a flight to Bordeaux, and passengers on other flights were also affected. A spokesman told the newspaper: ‘During our lunchtime peak, at one point we had four sets of X-ray machines fail, so we were down to one-third of our capacity to process an awful lot of passengers.'
‘It looks like teething problems. Engineers have been here, they are remaining not just today but over the weekend to make sure that if we have any on-going problems, they are fixed as soon as possible.’
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