Prohibited items

for safety

There are certain things that are known as prohibited items when traveling by air. These things will be caught by security agents once they have searched your bags or luggage. These items are not allowed inside the airport, especially inside the plane.

PASSENGERS AND CABIN BAGGAGE

List of Prohibited Items in person or in carry-on baggage

Without prejudice to applicable security regulations, passengers are not permitted to carry the following items into security restricted areas or on board an aircraft:

(a) guns, firearms, and other projectile-firing devices devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:

  • firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns;
  • toy guns, replicas and imitations of firearms that could be mistaken for real weapons;
  • firearms components, except telescopic sights;
  • compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns;
  • signal guns and starter guns;
  • bows, crossbows and arrows;
  • harpoons and harpoons;
  • slingshots and catapults.

b) stunning devices devices specifically designed to stun or immobilize, including:

  • devices to apply electric shocks, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons;
  • stunners and animal killers;
  • disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and aerosols, such as mace, pepper sprays, bell pepper sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays.

c) objects with sharp points or edges sharp-pointed or sharp-edged objects that can be used to cause serious injury, including:

  • items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and axes;
  • ice axes and ice picks;
  • razor blades;
  • box cutters;
  • knives with blades longer than 6 cm;
  • scissors with blades longer than 6 cm, measured from the fulcrum;
  • martial arts equipment with a sharp point or edge;
  • swords and sabers.

d) working tools tools that can be used to cause serious injury or threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

  • levers;
  • drills and drill bits, including cordless portable electric drills;
  • tools with a blade or handle longer than 6 cm that can be used as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels;
  • saws, including cordless portable electric saws;
  • torches;
  • bolt guns and nail guns.

e) blunt instruments objects that can be used to cause serious injury when used to strike, including:

  • baseball and softball bats;
  • sticks and clubs, such as clubs, truncheons and batons;
  • Martial arts equipment.

f) explosives and incendiary substances and devices explosives and incendiary substances and devices that can be used, or appear capable of being used, to cause serious injury or pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

  • ammunition;
  • detonators;
  • detonators and fuses;
  • replicas or imitations of explosive devices;
  • mines, grenades and other military explosive ordnance;
  • fireworks and other pyrotechnics;
  • Christmas cookies;
  • smoke generator canisters and smoke generator cartridges;
  • dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

(g) any other article which, in the reasonable opinion of the safety inspector or aircraft operator, may be used or adapted to cause injury or incapacitation to a person.

CARRY LUGGAGE

a) explosives and incendiary substances and devices a) explosives and incendiary substances and devices: explosives and incendiary substances and devices that can be used, or appear capable of being used, to cause serious injury or pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

  • ammunition;
  • detonators;
  • detonators and fuses;
  • replicas or imitations of explosive devices;
  • mines, grenades and other military explosive ordnance;
  • fireworks and other pyrotechnics;
  • smoke generator canisters and smoke generator cartridges;
  • dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

(b) any other item that, in the reasonable judgment of the safety inspector or aircraft operator, may pose a safety concern.

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