Flights departing the domestic terminal have been delayed on Monday night as all passengers will need to go back through the screening process.

However, the detector is just one of a multitude of technologies being developed to try and ensure optimum security at airports without slowing down the checks any more than they already have been.

The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions is evaluating a weapons detection technology for airports. Quantum Magnetics' metal detector can pinpoint weapons on passengers to a much ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The discovery of an unplugged metal detector forced the evacuation of five terminals at Los Angeles International Airport early Thursday and delayed more than 300 flights ...

Metal detector security screening appears safe for people with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), researchers found. In a simulation of airport screening, even prolonged ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal transportation officials have removed two officers from screening duties at Sacramento International Airport after a metal detector was left unattended and five ...

Another said: "Stansted airport, frisker says, "M&S bra? Metal is very good quality. Always sets alarm off." Marks and Spencer sells 23 million bras a year. A spokesperson for the chain told The Sun: ...

Despite the detector’s beep, airport security guards in Regina, Saskatchewan, were unable to find any metal on her body before the woman’s October flight to Calgary, Alberta.