Logan Airport is stepping up its game. According to MassPort via the Boston Globe, East Boston’s major transportation hub will be debuting a runway scanner Friday to help airport personnel detect any objects that somehow make their way onto the runway that might impede on the safety of everyone.

The scanner will help officials inspect foreign object debris (FOD) in between flights. FODs have caused tragic incidents in the past, most notably when Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde flight, collided with a piece of titanium from a flight that had just taken off prior. All nine crew members and 100 passengers died.

In 2007, a Virginia flight attempted to abort a takeoff after slamming into FOD. Unable to control the subsequent fishtailing, the plan drove straight off the runway. Luckily, no major injuries and no fatalities occurred.

As noted by the Globe, “the full-length runway system will be the first of its kind in the US.”