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Originally Posted by
radiosonde
To clarify: though bags and personal items passing through the machine remained physically and visually inaccessible to their owners, the clerk on the opposite side of the machine was able to remove them by an opening on his side of the covered portion of the belt.
This sounds like the “cage” I’ve seen at the exit side of the x-ray that allows screeners access to bags and other items, while PAX have to wait until it fully exits before it can be retrieved. I’ve had screeners ask “Is this your bag?” when I could not see what they were talking about, to which I alert them to that fact. Then they have to physically pull it out to show me.