[国际新闻] 美国撤除禁令8月起可带打火机上飞机

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美国政府决定从8月4日开始，停止施行已经两年，禁止乘客带普通打火机上飞机的政策。美国运输部认为，在乘客登机前搜索他们身上是否携带打火机，根本是浪费时间。 2001年当鞋子炸弹客芮德意图在从巴黎飞往迈阿密的班机上，用火柴引燃藏在鞋子里的炸弹後，美国政府在国会的坚持之下，终於宣布了禁带打火机上机的命令。rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de  O! g: X8 y/ ?5 }
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US: w: D, Z$ ?7 P: {, G7 _, w
US authorities will no longer enforce a two-year-old ban against taking cigarette lighters on planes because searching passengers wasted time and did not improve aviation security, the New York Times reports.0 r) D3 M: a) K! ]
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The ban on lighters was ordered by US lawmakers after a passenger, Richard Reid, tried to ignite a bomb in his shoe in 2001 on a flight from Paris to Miami.
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6 J7 A: v. d* K: H8 |7 U人在德国 社区Reid, known as the "shoe bomber", had used matches to try to ignite explosives concealed in his shoe and is currently serving a life sentence for trying to blow up the transatlantic flight.7 m8 V- b* ^- Z" V4 a8 F

4 i$ m) s# R) h' UUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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US Transport Security Administration assistant secretary Kip Hawley says the ban on lighters did not significantly enhance security because small batteries could be used to detonate a bomb.( ^& ~1 f: ^3 \* p+ P9 }
Mr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.
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/ t/ S2 d4 N( D"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said." @# l+ ~$ w- c8 ?0 c

) X* F: E* \2 n2 d"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."人在德国 社区6 \* H. ~- ]5 g. ~* C! P. |
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The policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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The New York Times says some 22,000 lighters a day are collected by security officers at airports across the United States and disposing of the confiscated lighters has cost about $US4 million a year.