Items Which Are Restricted To Carry In Flights.

Items Which Are Restricted to Carry In Flights

There are certain items that are not permitted to carry during traveling on flights. Various personal items are banned to carry in handbags in flights such as lighters, scissors, etc. Other sharp objects like box cutters, knives, razor type blades, meat cleavers, etc. are also banned to carry in flights. But safety razors, sabers, or swords are allowed.

Various sporting goods like bows and arrows, cricket bats, baseball bats, hockey sticks, pool cues, Ski poles, spear guns, etc. are not permitted to carry in handbags in flights. Guns and Firearms, or parts of guns and firearms are also not allowed to carry in flights. Different tools like axes and hatches, crowbars, hammers, drills, saws, screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers are not permitted to carry in handbags during travel in flights. Also, martial arts and self-defense items like brass knuckles, kubatons, nightsticks, nunchakus, throwing stars are banned in flights.

There are some items that are also banned to carry in checked-in bags. They include-

1. Explosive materials like - Flare guns, Gun lighters, Gun powder, Dynamite, Fireworks, Hand grenades, Plastic explosives, etc.

2. Compressed gases like - Butane, Oxygen, Liquid nitrogen, Aqualung cylinders, etc.


3. Flammable items like - Aerosol, Fuels, Gasoline, Gas torches, Lighter fluid, Turpentine, Paint thinner, etc.


4. Oxidizing materials like - Bleaching powder, Peroxides, etc.


5. Poisonous and Infectious substances like - Insecticides, Weed-killers, Live virus materials, etc.


6. Radio-active materials like - Acids, Alkalis, Mercury, Wet cell batteries, Oven or drain cleaners, etc.

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