The policy was implemented after Richard Reid, a newly converted Muslim shoe bomber who arrived in the US from France, tried to detonate explosives in his shoes during a flight
International reporter Daily Dawn, Dawn TV report
Washington: Those traveling to the US will no longer have to remove their shoes during security checks at airports.
Citing Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem, the statement said that the policy, which was implemented nationwide 20 years ago, has been immediately abolished.
She said that the administration has created a pilot program in terms of security during travel in which officials will have modern equipment that will make travel safer and people will also keep their shoes on during this time.
According to him, ‘travelers will no longer need to take off their shoes at security checkpoints.’
Removing shoes during screening became a requirement in 2006 after a man named Richard Reed tried unsuccessfully to blow up a plane from Paris to Miami by hiding a bomb in his shoe in early 2001.
According to this, passengers between the ages of 12 and 75 were required to remove their shoes and were scanned along with their luggage.
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