What are Prohibited Hand Baggage Items on Plane?
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When travelling by plane, there are some rules you should remember. Some items are classified as prohibited items, weapons and dangerous goods that cannot be carried onboard an aircraft. If you have any of these items in your carry-on baggage, you will need to surrender these at the screening point.
Today, Knowinsider would like to introduce you some of the prohibited items when you are on the plane.
Items Which Cannot Be Carried In Hand Baggage
Personal Items
Lighters, Scissors-metal with pointed tips, Realistic replica of a toy weapon.
Sharp Objects
Box Cutters, Ice Axes/Ice Picks, Knives (any length and type except round-bladed, butter, and plastic cutlery), Meat Cleavers, Razor-type blades such as box cutters, utility knives, razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors, Sabres, Sword
Sporting Goods
Baseball Bats, Bows and Arrows, Cricket Bats, Golf Clubs, Hockey Sticks, Lacrosse Sticks, Pool Cues, Ski Poles, Spear Guns.
Guns and Firearm
Ammunition, BB guns, Compressed Air Guns, Firearms, Parts of Guns and Firearms, Pellet Guns, Realistic Replicas of Firearms, Starter pistols.
Tools
Axes and hatchets, Cattle Prods, Crowbars, Hammers, Drills (including cordless portables power drills), Saws (including cordless portable power saws), Screwdrivers (except those in eyeglass repair kits), Tools (including but not limited to wrenches and pliers), Wrenches and Pliers.
Martial Arts/Self Defense Items
Billy Clubs, Black Jacks, Brass Knuckles, Kubatons, Mace/Pepper Spray, Martial Arts Weapons, Night Sticks, Nunchakus, Martial Arts/Self Defense Items, Stun Guns/Shocking Devices, Throwing Stars
Prohibited items and weapons
Examples of items that cannot be carried onboard. It is indicated by the homeaffairs.gov.au, items that are a replica or imitations of these items are also prohibited.
Sporting goods, kitchen utensils, tools, and other items with sharp edges or points capable of injuring a person
axes, hatchets or similar
box cutters
crampons
darts
drills
ice axes and ice picks
ice skates
knives or knife-like (whether or not made of metal), including leatherworking knives
meat cleavers
metal cutlery
open/straight razors
rock climbing equipment such as pitons, hooks, hammers and bolts
saws
scalpels
screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers and wrenches
ski poles
utility knives
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Blunt items that are able to be used to bludgeon or threaten to bludgeon a person
baseball, softball and cricket bats
billiard, pool or snooker cues
hockey and lacrosse sticks
golf clubs
pieces of wood, metal or any other materials big enough to threaten a person
Household flammable goods
aerosol containers, including spray paint
petrol and any other flammable liquid
fireworks
toy caps
Weapons
firearms, flares, gun powders
daggers, flick-knives, star knives, shuriken throwing irons, stars, harpoons, sabres, swords and swordsticks and similar things and spears
disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases or sprays, such as mace, pepper or capsicum spray, tear gas, acid sprays and animal-repellent sprays
billy clubs, leather billies, blackjacks
martial arts equipment such as knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails and numchucks, kubatons, kubasaunts, night sticks and batons
ballistic knives and similar devices designed to discharge a projectile by means of an explosive or other propellant or mechanism, blow pipes, cross‑bows, spear guns, hunting slings, catapults, slingshots, bows and arrows
stun guns, cattle prods and tasers
dynamite, explosives (plastic or otherwise), blasting caps, blow‑torches, detonators, fuses and detonator cord, explosive flares in any form, grenades, mines and other explosive military stores, smoke cartridges
explosive flares in any form
smoke and infectious substances, eg. preparations of anthrax spores
chemicals toxins, eg. chemical warfare agents
| As each of the airlines has its own regulations related to prohibited items, it seems that words in this article are not enough to list down all of them. Hopefully, this article is useful for you, especially when you plan to visit somewhere out of your country. |
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