(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 08, 2002 ) SUGGESTED ANCHOR LEAD: One of the biggest concerns in airline safety is the possibility of a bomb being hidden in the luggage that goes into a plane's cargo hold. The kind of bomb that took down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland. Now a southern California company, Telair International, has designed a new kind of cargo container that is the first of it's kind to pass the FAA's blast resistant container test and be fully certified for use. Walter Ocner has more.

SCRIPT: It's a development that could usher in a new era in airline safety. An airplane cargo container that's virtually bomb proof. If a bomb hidden in a piece of luggage goes off, the force of the blast, and the resulting fire is confined to the container. Dennis Staver is with Telair International, a southern California manufacturing company which designed the container.

CUT: (Staver) The material in the panels themselves actually expand with the force of the blast, and contain it, much like a big balloon. So it expands briefly, then it contracts back to its normal size. (:14)

SCRIPT: This is the first container of its kind to successfully pass the FAA's blast resistant container test and be fully certified for airline use. The new container is fully compatible with existing aircraft loading systems, and is already in production. It's expected that they'll start appearing on aircraft soon. I'm Walter Ocner

Additional Sound Bite: Dennis Staver, Telair Vice President and General Manager. (:16)

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Produced for Telair International Inc.

Contacts:

Dennis Staver
(310) 898-2211

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Contact Information:
Telair International Inc.
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