PPT Slide
A proposal presents a statement of the problem
a serious threat to air travel
• Statistics on the aircraft downed by plastic explosives
• Specific example of aircraft downed by plastic explosives (Pan Am Flight 103)
Conventional methods cannot
effectively detect plastic explosives
• Problems that conventional x-rays have detecting plastic explosives
• Problems that dogs have detecting plastic explosives
New methods are needed to detect
plastic explosives in airline baggage
Evidence that conventional methods
failed in detecting plastic explosives