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04 March 2005, 07:43
Kathi
TSA Bans Lighters From Flights
TSA Bans Lighters From Flights

By Sara Kehaulani Goo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 1, 2005; Page A06

Airline passengers will no longer be allowed to bring cigarette lighters on board commercial airplanes beginning April 14, ending a security loophole that lawmakers said could be exploited by terrorists seeking to light explosives in the cabin.

But the Transportation Security Administration acknowledged yesterday that another loophole remains: Passengers may currently bring up to four books of matches aboard an aircraft. TSA officials said they had hoped to ban both matches and lighters, but the White House Office of Management and Budget resisted the inclusion of matches, which was not specified in the recently passed law banning lighters.

An OMB spokesman said the TSA needs to complete a cost-benefit analysis of banning matches.

"If we move to add matches to the list, we will post the proposal for public comment," TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield said.

Until the ban goes into effect, TSA security screeners will inform passengers who carry lighters that they will no longer be allowed on airplanes in April. Even though lighters and matches are not easily detectable by X-ray machines and metal detectors, TSA security screeners will confiscate them if they find them inside a passenger's luggage.

The ban on lighters comes at the direction of Congress, which attached a measure to the intelligence bill signed into law last December prohibiting "butane" lighters.

Airport officials feared the ban would pose several problems, including whether smoking lounges in terminals could remain open. They also wondered how the TSA could impose the ban since many lighters would slip past screening machines.


Kathi

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04 March 2005, 07:49
cable68
The ban on butane lighters went into effect last December?????? I had to surrender one back in Aug of '03. Mad

But they didn't take my Cuban cigars.


Caleb
04 March 2005, 10:22
Will
Congress (California Caucus?) must think that terrorists need a firecracker and a butane lighter to hijack an airplane.

This is just a disguise to ban smoking lounges in airports.

Damn, I'm glad these morons in Washington are there to protect me. And they sound so smart during election campaigns.


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05 March 2005, 23:07
Lucky1
Does this apply to checked luggage also?

Lucky1
05 March 2005, 23:16
T.Carr
quote:
Originally posted by Lucky1:
Does this apply to checked luggage also?

Lucky1


No matches or lighters in checked luggage.

TSA Rules

Regards,

Terry



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