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FAMILIES look caller nightmares astatine UK airports arsenic the troubled caller information scanners cull captious medicine.
Calpol and different liquid nurofens are being flagged by the new high-tech CT scanners being introduced crossed the UK arsenic perchance ‘an explosive’.
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Despite being nether 100ml and wholly ineligible to instrumentality done UK security, the Artificial Intelligence bundle successful the next-generational CT systems is incapable to corroborate these are conscionable every-day household medicines.
The multi-million lb caller kit instantly rejects and families are forced to hold successful lengthy queues for them to beryllium checked by information staff.
A information root said: “Calpol and different liquid nurofens are instantly being rejected. It’s causing immense queues arsenic families ever question with the medicine.
"It’s lone precocious that we’ve been capable to manus them backmost to passengers - earlier that we’d person to propulsion them distant and archer families to bargain much successful the departure lounge.
“The caller scanners haven’t sped up the clip it takes to get done information - they’ve made it acold worse arsenic truthful galore much rider bags are having to beryllium checked for guiltless liquids.”
It comes arsenic the full strategy was thrown into chaos with the reintrouction of the 100ml liquid regularisation - the 1 happening the caller scanners were meant to get escaped of.
The authorities told each UK airports they had to person the scanners installed by June this year. They were astatine archetypal feted arsenic a gyration for the nightmare that is airdrome security.
With nary 100ml bounds and nary request to region electronics from your bags, it was meant to velocity up the process.
Six smaller determination airports met the deadline - including London City, Teeside, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Southend and Teeside and allowed passengers to question with unlimited liquids.
But large airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester were fixed until NEXT twelvemonth to power to the caller scanners owed to the analyzable quality of installing them portion inactive processing millions of passengers.
And past backmost successful June, the authorities announced the 100ml liquid regularisation was back.
While you nary longer person to region thing from your bag, inconsistencies successful the bundle person seen guiltless items flagged arsenic perchance dangerous.
Sources initially said immoderate sun creams were being flagged arsenic banned substances.
But the nonaccomplishment to recognise a medicine utilized by tens of millions of families connected a regular ground to header with their children’s insignificant illnesses, has led to immense delays and thousands of guiltless bottles of the liquid medicine being thrown away.
The concern volition beryllium made worse due to the fact that airports crossed the EU - besides installing the caller scanners - re-introduced the 100ml liquid restrictions this month
There is not presently immoderate plans to driblet the caller rules portion the glitches successful the strategy are addressed some present successful the UK and abroad.
A Department For Transport spokesperson told Sun Travel: “The caller information instrumentality being rolled retired astatine UK airports enhances information for passengers.
“Passengers should proceed to cheque information requirements with airports earlier they question and travel prepared with liquids nary larger than 100mL successful manus baggage.”
Why was the 100ml regularisation introduced?
The rule astir liquids connected planes was started successful 2006, aft British constabulary stopped a violent program to stroke up planes flying crossed the Atlantic.
The terrorists wanted to bring liquid explosives onto the planes by hiding them successful brushed portion bottles successful their manus luggage.
If they had succeeded, it would person been the worst panic onslaught since 9/11.
"I watched families stripped of Calpol astatine airdrome security"
The Sun's Head of Travel Lisa Minot describes watching the caller airdrome scanners conflict with children's medicine firsthand this week…
WE’D already been queueing for 30minutes successful a precise engaged airdrome information hallway erstwhile it was yet my turn.
The airdrome had the caller CT scanners successful spot and we were told NOT to region thing from our luggage.
My compartment container sailed done with easiness - my rucksack, however, was sent for further searches.
I knew determination were nary liquids successful it - conscionable a laptop - and I groaned inwardly arsenic I realised my container was astatine the extremity of a queue of 10 bags inactive waiting to beryllium checked.
Standing by the table wherever 1 solitary information serviceman was going done the bags, a disturbing signifier began to emerge.
As each container was flagged, a household was called guardant and a vessel of Calpol - each nether 100ml and perfectly ineligible - was removed from their luggage and tipped into a bin.
It didn’t hap erstwhile arsenic I stood determination for different 25-odd minutes. Three antithetic families had 3 identical bottles of Calpol taken away.
A fourth, aged man had a antithetic branded vessel of liquid nurofen removed from his luggage an thrown away.
By the clip my rucksack was scanned - determination was thing incorrect with it, the CT scanner had conscionable ‘forgotten to instrumentality its picture’ according to the information serviceman - I had watched 4 passengers person liquids removed that should not person been causing an issue.
While it is close that the 100ml rules are reintroduced, until these glitches successful the bundle are resolved it volition beryllium of immense vexation to airports who person spent hundreds of millions upgrading their systems lone to beryllium backmost to quadrate one.
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