The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) has recently allowed federal airport screeners to allow passengers to carry onto a plane small knives – with blades less than 2.36 inches or 6 centimeters long – as well as sporting equipment, including golf clubs, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey and lacrosse sticks.
A TSA spokesperson said that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit,
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