TSA Reverses Knife Plan for Cabin Baggage
These knives could have been legally purchased in Geneva before boarding a flight to the U.S.
These knives could have been legally purchased in Geneva before boarding a flight to the U.S.

After nearly three months of pushback from pilots, flight attendants and aircraft operators, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reversed its plan to allow small knives aboard airliners on June 5. TSA Administrator John Pistole’s March announcement that the agency would align U.S. standards with those in the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Security Manual for Safeguarding Civil Aviation Against Acts of Unlawful Interference would have allowed passengers to bring on board folding knives with blades no more than 2.36 inches (6 cm) long–prohibited since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.