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Language: en
in New York
City designers
engineers and construction workers watch
the are on a once-in-a-lifetime mission
to build an extraordinary airport the
city's new LaGuardia Airport has a
budget of more than $8 billion and will
be America's First new airport in more
than 25
years inside the team is completing the
installation of the airport's vast new
baggage system
the new airport must be able to process
40 million bags each
year getting the right bag to the right
aircraft requires an ingenious system
each bag is given a bag tag this bag tag
becomes basically the license plate of
the bag this bag tag has a unique
identifier that will then be tracked
throughout the entire
system a network of scanners reads the
tag and automatically directs the bags
left or right to the correct loading
Bay vertical sorting units also move
bags up or down a level if needed before
all baggage moves air side the conveyors
shuttle it through
security the new state-of-the-art
technology that we have in security can
pick up anything but if it picks it up
it's dealing with it dealing with it
swiftly with up to 6,000 bags to check
every hour how can Engineers ensure a
suspicious bag is not sent on to the
aircraft special explosive detection
machines scan every
bag if they raise a red flag bags are
rerouted to TSA agents on the lower
floor for hand
checking while cleared bags must go up a
level to reach the gates
vertical sorting units VSU are an
essential part of the security system
their conveyors divert the bags either
up or down depending on whether they are
cleared or not the VSU automatically
ensure a suspicious bag never makes it
onto an aircraft keeping the sky safe
for passengers it's protection of Life
protection of property then resume
operations