Whom does the ban on the transportation of electronic devices in airplanes

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US authorities on Tuesday announced a ban on carriage of electronic devices, such as laptops and tablets, in hand luggage. The ban will affect passengers arriving in the US flights from Turkey and seven other Muslim countries, writes Air force.

As stated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), extremists are looking for new methods to blow up aircraft. Explosive devices can be hidden in laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD players and electronic gaming devices.

This measure applies to 9 airlines flying from 10 airports in the world. Large electronic devices will be able to take with you only in baggage, but the ban did not affect mobile phones and smartphones.

This provision applies to all passengers departing from these airports, regardless of nationality. Airlines have 96 hours, counting from 03: 00 in the morning of Tuesday, to develop a set of measures to fulfill the new requirement, the broadcasting company reports NBC.

Which airlines are banned:

• Royal Jordanian
• Egypt Air
• Turkish Airlines
• Saudi Arabian Airlines
• Kuwait Airways
• Royal Air Maroc
• Qatar Airways
• Emirates
• Etihad Airways

According to US officials, airlines have been given 96 hours, starting on Tuesday 7.00 GMT, to impose this ban, which has no expiration date.

Which airports are banned:

• Queen Alia International Airport, Amman, Jordan
• Cairo International Airport, Egypt
• Ataturk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey
• King Abdulaziz Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• King Khalid Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Kuwait International Airport
• Mohammed V International Airport, Casablanca, Morocco
• Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar
• International Airport in Dubai, UAE
• International Airport in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Agence France-Presse reported that passengers will be forced to follow about 50 flights, departing daily from the world's busiest airports in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security reported:

“US authorities are concerned about the ongoing interest of terrorists over the past 2 years in attacking commercial flights, including airports, which follows from the plane crash in Egypt in 2015; attempts to blow up a plane in Somalia in 2016 and armed attacks on airports in Brussels and Istanbul in 2016.”

“Intelligence assessments indicate that terrorist groups continue to target commercial airlines, in particular by carrying explosive devices in a variety of household appliances,” the ministry said.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly contacted congressmen over the weekend and told them exactly what security considerations lie behind the restriction on the transportation of electronics in the cabin.

According to US media, this directive has been discussed for several weeks.

In February, 2016, the plane of the Dubai airline Daallo was damaged by an explosion shortly after departure from Somalia’s Mogadishu airport.

Investigators established that the passenger who [was exploded by force] was thrown out of the plane had an explosive device in his laptop.

The pilot managed to land the plane, and the suspect demolition man became the only victim of this incident. But if the explosive device worked at cruising altitude, the plane would most certainly have been destroyed.

The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility, and the possibility of more similar attacks appears to be worrying U.S. intelligence officials.

But, as always happens when it comes to intelligence, officials refuse to apply to what is specifically related to the current ban.

This means that tourists are asked to trust the US authorities if they say that this inconvenience is vital for their own security, although at the moment there is just confidence in a large deficit.

It also became known that the British authorities are ready, following the United States, to ban the transport of laptops and other electronic devices on board aircraft en route to the United Kingdom from a number of countries. According to The Telegraph, the possibility of a ban on the transport of electronics has been discussed in the British government in recent weeks.

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