“If a baby can get through, what the hell else can get through?”
“The screeners are still reporting that they’re being pushed,” said Brian Sullivan, a retired Federal Aviation Administration security agent. Security experts said the incident underscored a more widespread concern about the screening process at LAX and other airports. In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, the doctor added, he was exposed to as much radiation as he would naturally get from cosmic rays - or high energy from outer space - in a day. “Human beings weren’t meant to go through those things.” Francis Health Systems in Colorado Springs, Colo., and president of the American College of Radiology. James Borgstede, a diagnostic radiologist at Penrose-St. “Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn’t happen again,” said Dr. And it raised questions about the danger of X-rays used to pick out suspicious metal shapes in passenger bags, given the medical community’s warnings that even low amounts of radiation can build up over a lifetime. The rare incident drew attention to whether officials are staffing often-busy security checkpoints enough to prevent such an accident. The grandmother and the child were subsequently allowed to board an Alaska Airlines flight to Mexico City.
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