Checked baggage in the hold: you can check in ammunition, but not mosquito spray or scooter
We all, more or less, know what is prohibited to carry in hand luggage when boarding an airplane. Of course, [...]
We all, more or less, know what is forbidden to carry in hand luggage When you get on a plane. Of course, the state-of-the-art machines placed at some airports (including Fiumicino and Linate in Italy) allow containers of liquids with a capacity greater than 100 milliliters to be carried in the cabin. But sharp objects of any kind remain prohibited.
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Less is known, in general, about what is prohibited to put in the suitcase that ends up in the cargo hold. And that it can be very dangerous, because everything in the cargo hold cannot be reached during the flight.
In anticipation of the peak traffic of the summer season, the FAA (the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) has posted on its website an updated list of everything that is prohibited from being included in the baggage that is delivered to check-in clerks and ends up in the belly of planes. A list that, with one exception, is almost identical to that of our own Enac and Easa, the European Flight Safety Agency.
At the top of the list are lithium batteries and all devices that incorporate that type of battery, Which are highly flammable. Electronic cigarettes and battery-powered vaporizers also banned, and more generally devices that contain batteries (including non-lithium batteries) such as cameras, clock radios, and battery-powered watches.
Also banned are alcohol bottles over 70 degrees and insect repellent sprays over 118 millilitri, perfume and cologne bottles, gas or lithium battery-powered lighters, matches, mercury thermometers, and butane-powered cordless hair straighteners.
Incredibly (but perhaps not to the average American), you can instead put ammunition in your checked baggage, but only up to a caliber of 19.1 millimeters. That are instead banned, regardless of caliber, by both Enac and Easa.
In addition to what to put in checked baggage, care must be taken its closure. The old-style key lock does not provide sufficient security assurance, since it only takes a good shear to make it 'jump'. Better to rely on combination padlocks or combination-locking suitcases: in the latter case, thieves will be forced to pry open the suitcase in order to steal it, and before doing so, they will think about it one more time.
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