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The UK has strict security measures in place to keep dangerous items from being taken on board a flight. Find out what you can't take in your hand baggage (bags you carry with you) and what cannot be taken on a plane at all.
What you cannot take in your hand baggage
You cannot take any objects in your hand baggage that can cause injury to yourself and other passengers. These are considered ‘prohibited' and you are only allowed to take these items in your hold baggage (bags you check-in).
Prohibited items are also not allowed in the shopping areas of the airport (sometimes called 'airside'), or in the cabin of the plane at any time.
If you have any questions about what you can or can't take with you, please contact your airline or airport directly.
Did you know you can't take these in your hand baggage?
They are prohibited by UK regulation and are allowed only in your hold baggage:
Corkscrews
Darts
Scissors with blades more than 6cm
hypodermic syringes (unless required for medical reasons)
Knives
Metal cutlery (except teaspoons)
Pointed/edged weapons and sharp objects
The following is not allowed in your hand baggage.
Including but not limited to:
Axes and hatchets
Arrows and darts
Crampons
Harpoons and spears
Ice axes and ice picks
Ice skates
Lockable or flick knives, with blades of more than 6cm, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon
Meat cleavers
Machets
Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge)
Sabres,swords and swordsticks.
Scalpels
Scissors with blades more than 6cm in length
Ski and walking/hiking poles
Throwing stars
Tradesman's tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapons, including drills and drill bits, box clutters, utility knives, all saws,screwdrivers,crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow torches.
Blunt instruments
Including but not limited to
Baseball and softball bats
Clubs or batons -rigid or flexible - including Billy clubs, blackjacks, night sticks and batons.
Cricket bats
Golf clubs
Hockey sticks
Lacrosse sticks
Kayak and canoe paddles
Skateboards
Billiard, snooker and pool cues.
Fishing rods
Martial arts equipment such as knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, num chucks, kubatons, kubasaunts.
What cannot be taken on a plane
Section four of the Aviation Security Act 1982, prohibits you from taking weapons, explosives, and other items that can cause injury or damage to yourself and other passengers.
Airport security may also confiscate anything they consider to be dangerous.
If you have any questions about what items you are allowed to take, please contact your airline directly.
The following items are considered dangerous and cannot under any circumstances be taken in your hand or hold baggage.
· Air travel hand baggage rules
Guns, firearms and weapons
Any object capable of being a weapon, discharging a projectile or causing injury is prohibited and cannot be taken in either your hold or hand baggage. In a few cases, however, some of the items on this list may be allowed in your hold baggage. You will first need to make special arrangements with your airline. Please contact them if you have any questions.
Items include but are not limited to:
All firearms (pistols, revolvers,rifles, shotguns)
Replica and imitation firearms
Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices and sights)
Air pistols, rifles and pellet guns
Signal flare pistols
Starter pistols
Toy guns of all types
Ball bearing guns
Industrial bolt and nail guns
Cross bows
Catapults
Harpoon and spear guns
Animal humane killers
Stun or shocking devices such as cattle prods and ballistic conducted energy weapons (taser)
Lighters shaped like a firearm.
Explosives and flammable substances
Substances that pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew are prohibited and cannot be taken in your hand or hold baggage.
These include but are not limited to:
Explosivesand explosive devices including detonators, fuses, grenades, mines.
Blasting caps
Detonators and fuses
Explosives and explosive devices
Replica or imitation explosive material or devices
Mines and other explosive military stores
Grenades of all types
Gas and gas containers such as butane, propane, acetylene and oxygen in large volumes
Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics, including party poppers and toy caps.
Non-safety matches
Smoke generating canisters or cartridges
Flammable liquides and fuels, such as petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol and methanol.
Flammable solids and reactive substances, including magnesium, firelighters, fireworks, flares.
aerosol spray paint
Turpentine and paint thinner
Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70 percent by volume (140 percent proof)
Chemical and toxic substances
Chemical that pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew are prohibited and cannot be taken in either your hold or hand baggage.
They include but are not limited to:
Oxidizers and organic peroxides including bleach and car body repair kits.
Acids and alkalis such as splillable 'wet' batteries.
Corrosives or bleaching substances including mercury and chlorine.
Vehicle batteries and vehicle fuel systems
Disabliung or incapacitating sprays including mace, pepper spray, tear gas.
Radioactive material, including medicinal or commercial isotopes
Poisons and toxic substances, including rat poison
Infectious substances or biological hazardous material such as infected blood, bacteria and viruses.
Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion.
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