Security checks are being carried out on every commercial airliner in the United States after knives were discovered hidden on two planes.
Officials ordered the searches to be completed within 24 hours. The mass action follows the discovery of plastic bags containing box cutters in lavatories on two Southwest Airlines planes, one in New Orleans, the other in Houston. Box cutters were used by attackers who hijacked four planes on 11 September, 2001, and crashed them deliberately in New York and Washington killing more than 3,000 people. Southwest Airlines said notes found with both packages said the intention was to simulate a threat and to challenge the security screening procedures for passenger planes.

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