Banning laptops in cabin luggage won't prevent terrorist attacks on planes
27 Mar 2017 13:42:00
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Introducing new security measures for the airline industry is rarely done lightly by governments. Certainly, it is underpinned by the responsibility to ensure passenger safety. But it’s not clear how effective the recent ban on laptops and large electronic devices in aircraft cabin baggage on flights from certain West Asian airports to the United States and United Kingdom will be.
There is evidence that airport baggage scanners in many developing world airports aren’t sophisticated enough to detect the latest explosive devices that can be hidden in electronic devices. But limiting the restrictions to just 10 specific airports leaves open significant other risks that could be exploited.
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