No Lighters on SW or any flights

[CarolA]

I promise I read an interview with some guy at the TSA and he was quoted as saying something like "we realized lighters were a threat. If Richard Reid had had a lighter we realized he might have been successful"

 

[MinnieM21]

I promise I read an interview with some guy at the TSA and he was quoted as saying something like "we realized lighters were a threat. If Richard Reid had had a lighter we realized he might have been successful"

Here you go: “The belief is now that if he had a lighter and not a match, the thing would have detonated,” said the law enforcement official who spoke to the Globe.

It's from this article: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/afgvhan.htm