Flights Subject to New Rules After Bomb Plot

Large toner cartridges banned from passengers flights

By Nick McMaster

Posted Nov 8, 2010 2:55 PM CST

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Flights Subject to New Rules After Bomb Plot — A cargo plane is loaded at the FedEx distribution center at the International Cargo Airport in Cologne, western Germany, Monday Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

The recent mail-bomb plot has prompted the Department of Homeland Security to enact new air cargo restrictions, effective immediately, the New York Times reports. Among the changes:

Certain packages bound to the US from overseas will be subjects to what the anti-terror agency called “additional and enhanced screening.”
Toner and ink cartridges weighing more than one pound are now banned from all passengers flights.
A ban on all cargo flights coming from Yemen was expanded to include neighboring Somalia, another known al-Qaeda operations base.

(More cargo bombs stories.)

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