UN Agency to Produce New List of Banned Items

icao.gif “In an effort to further thwart terrorist plots to blow up airliners, the United Nations aviation agency will this week move ahead on producing a new list of prohibited items that passengers cannot bring on board, such as liquid, gel and aerosol products capable of being used in improvised explosive devices.

On 27 and 28 September, the International Explosives Technical Commission of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO ) will take up the work of a panel that met earlier this month following the thwarted terrorist plot in August in the United Kingdom to blow up some 10 trans-Atlantic flights.” More