Starting from August 14, Delta Airlines and Aeroflot passengers heading for the United States won’t be able to take liquid and jelly-like products on board of the aircraft.
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We Will Fly Dry to the U.S.
From now on, all passengers making the U.S. flights won’t take liquids and gels in carry on baggage, Sheremetyevo Airport announced Monday. The only exceptions are baby food and prescribed medicine.
Starting from August 14, the passengers of Delta Airlines and Aeroflot heading for the United States won’t take liquids and gels in carry on baggage, Sheremetyevo briefer Anna Zakharenkova announced Monday.
“The ban doesn’t relate to the baby food. Besides, one may take medicaments if the permit is available,” Zakharenkova specified. But if a passenger buys some drinks in the duty-free shop, he/she will have to take them before getting on the aircraft.
According to Zakharenkova, Sheremetyevo toughened securities on demand of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On August 10, Britain’s special services aborted a plot targeted at the aircraft flying from Heathrow to New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago on August 16. The purpose was to blow up the planes by using liquid explosives.
“They are just playing safe,” commented Adolf Mishuyev, chief of Explosion Safety Service of Moscow, “as they lack devices for normal diagnostics.” It is illustrative that other Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, won’t take similar actions. The Airport’s Security Service has means to diagnose liquids without unpacking, said Domodedovo Airport briefer Anna Krasnova.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 15, 2006
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