[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.de6 _5 T+ p4 n/ c$ I
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
( ~, Z% ^- P0 c% UUS 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.
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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.人在德国 社区4 x- p9 s5 [0 I2 C  I; _
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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.8 ^' L7 q: K; \8 n$ m' I4 o( S

8 S2 J- H% a$ ~2 |9 w5 w! TUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.  d3 n# O1 q+ O) X+ B

- b0 E. p& }5 k8 ?+ m) jUS 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.
  s+ g' L0 k! D- ]! LMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.6 K7 ^! E2 m0 e5 D+ J5 E0 H
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"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.人在德国 社区! Y. E# q9 Y3 O: v; A

+ ~6 _1 l2 ^' @4 H  j1 a5 t0 H"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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: j" j% H! F7 h7 X* vThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.5 u3 a4 D1 r8 P

4 e( p) T9 X; M8 Y/ k% K4 n: C& ~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.