The Dutch government has said that it will commence using full-body scanners on flights to the US within three weeks, after a failed Christmas Day airline bomb attack.
The interior ministry made the announcement on Wednesday after Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, managed to board a flight from Lagos to Detroit in the United States, via Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, with a highly explosive material sewn into his underwear.
An investigation by the Dutch government will look into the incident, but a preliminary inquiry said that the plot was of professional standard but its execution was "amateurish".
"It is not to say the world has escaped a disaster," Guusje Ter Horst, the interior minister, said.