[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。$ A. g, k3 E0 ^7 @  c1 R

9 K$ y4 a# x8 X' }6 c人在德国 社区Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
' e; L  Y- k' |人在德国 社区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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de+ z) [4 y! ~. C! D
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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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! C; c1 X7 ]  a" J+ o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.& f, F' d7 x/ ~7 ~0 I
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US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.; B; ?, f7 ]% i) U

8 X' q# `' J8 r2 t" K人在德国 社区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.* l/ d* O4 n/ J' W
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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"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."人在德国 社区% b) H; z  {9 s% B2 i# M

! g' o! u2 ?' o2 K9 e4 G8 O  k6 OThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.人在德国 社区( M0 h4 d  m6 i. _: e

$ J7 c, Y. Y" Z8 d# ?; Q人在德国 社区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.