Forbidden items Some types of objects are not allowed aboard as hand luggage because their features make them liable to disturb security/safety aboard the aircraft. Find out which objects are not allowed:
Firearms and other weapons Any object that is capable of (or appears to be capable of) shooting projectiles and causing injury, such as: Firearms of all types (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.); Firearm replicas or imitations; Firearm component parts (excluding telescopic sighting devices and sights); Air pistols and air rifles; Signal flare pistols; Alarm pistols; Toy guns of all types; Ball-bearing guns; Industrial bolt and nail guns; Crossbows; Slings; Underwater hunting weapons; Cattle slaughter pistols; Stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons (taser); Lighters shaped like a firearm; Pointed/edged weapons and sharp objects Pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, such as: Axes and hatchets; Bows and arrows; Crampons; Harpoons and spears; Ice axes and ice picks; Ice skates; Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length; Knives, including ceremonial knives, with blades of more than 6 cm, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon; Meat cleavers; Machetes; Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge); Sabres, swords and swordsticks; Scalpels; Scissors with blades more than 6 cm in length; Ski and walking/hiking poles; Throwing stars (shurikens); Professional tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon, e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, saws of all kinds, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow-torches, etc.; Blunt instruments Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including: Baseball and softball bats; Clubs or batons, rigid or flexible (e.g. billy clubs, blackjacks, nightsticks 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, e.g. knuckledusters, clubs, coshes, nunchakus, kubatons, kubasaunts; Explosives and flammable substances Any explosive or highly combustible substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including: Ammunition; 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 (e.g. butane; propane; acetylene; oxygen) in large volume; Fireworks; flares (in any form) and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps); Non-safety matches;• Smoke generating canisters or cartridges; Flammable liquid fuel (e.g. petrol/gasoline; diesel; lighter fluid; alcohol; ethanol); Aerosol spray paint; Turpentine and paint thinner; Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70 % by volume (140 % proof); Chemical and toxic substances Any chemical or toxic substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security or safety of aircraft or property, including: Acids and alkalis (e.g. spillable ‘wet’ batteries); Corrosive or bleaching substances (e.g. mercury, chlorine); Disabling or incapacitating sprays (e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas); Radioactive material (e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes); Poisons Infectious or biological hazardous material (e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses); Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion; Fire extinguishers.