By 2012, Hair Gels and Mouthwash Maybe Fly-able
Airline
passengers may once again be allowed to board flights with creams, gels and
liquids that were banned over security concerns, the International Civil
Aviation Organization said September 27. “In the next two years (the ban) will
end,” the ICAO Secretary General told AFP ahead of the UN organization’s 37th
general assembly. New equipment capable of detecting explosives in water
bottles, makeup kits or toothpaste tubes, for example, would be installed at
most airport security checkpoints by 2012, he explained. The unprecedented
security measure took effect in 2006 after British police foiled a
transatlantic plot to detonate liquid explosives aboard airliners flying to
Canada and the United States. Controversial full body scanners, opposed by
nations including the U.S. will still be used to varying degrees in the short
term because they allow for quicker inspections and reduce lines at airport
security checkpoints.
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