Frankfurt - Baggage controllers and security at Frankfurt airport turned up 120,000 weapons and other dangerous items during 1997, a third less than in 1996, the operators of Germany's main airport said yesterday.
Controllers found 13 grenades in passengers' hand luggage at the Rhine-Main International airport, which is the eighth largest in the world in terms of passenger numbers, and the second-largest in Europe. They also came across more than 1,700 pistols and some 37,000 knives.