Security if you can't walk through the scanner?

[M2B]

How do airports handle someone who can't stand up in the scanner (I'm guessing you're not supposed to touch the sides) or walk through a security check?

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

This information is available on the TSA website:

http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/travelers-disabilities-and-medical-conditions

 

[seashoreCM]

I think that patdown is the standard method but, to speed things up, the majority of passengers are given the option of going through the scanner.

Several years ago I had the notion that passengers might some day be given the choice of: X-ray, patdown, or strip search.

 

[kaytieeldr]

This information is available on the TSA website:

http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/travelers-disabilities-and-medical-conditions

More from a sub-link on this page:
"Passengers can be screened using imaging technology only if they can stand still with their arms above their heads for 5-7 seconds without the support of a person or device. Similarly, passengers can be screened using walk-through metal detectors only if they can walk through without the support of another person.

A passenger can request to be screened while seated if he or she cannot walk or stand during screening. If a passenger cannot or chooses not to be screened by imaging technology or a walk-through metal detector, the passenger will be screened using a thorough patdown procedure instead. A patdown procedure also is used to resolve any alarms of a metal detector or anomalies identified by imaging technology.

In addition to screening the passenger, the passengers walker, crutch, cane, or other device must undergo X-ray screening, unless it cannot fit through the X-ray. If an item cannot fit through the X-ray, or the passenger cannot be separated from the item, it must be inspected by*an officer. Please tell the officer if you need to be immediately reunited with the device after it is screened by X-ray."

 

[M2B]

Thanks for the link.