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PERSONAL SAFETY, WHAT NOT TO PACK OR CARRY ON BOARD AIRCRAFT
| Watch for common household items that can be hazardous materials when transported by air. The changes in temperature and pressure during flight can cause items to leak, generate toxic fumes or start a fire.
BE INFORMED, BE SAFE Common Household Hazardous Materials: |
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| 1. Fireworks, signal flares, sparklers or other explosives.
2. Flammable Liquids or solids such as fuel, paints, paint-thinners/cleaners, lighter fluid, matches, or perfume (no more than 16 oz per container). Strike-anywhere matches, lights with flammable liquid reservoirs and lighter fluid are forbidden. 3. Pressure Containers such as spray cans (hair spray, deodorant or repellents), butane fuel such as curling iron refills, scuba tanks, propane tanks, CO2 cartridges, self-inflating rafts. 4. Weapons such as firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, mace, tear gas or pepper spray. Firearms may be checked and declared, if unloaded. 5. When flying outside Mission area or on International Carriers; Knives and cutting instruments of all kinds are prohibited. 6. Other materials such as dry ice, gas-powered tools, wet-cell batteries, camping equipment with fuel, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious substances. Dry Ice (4 lbs or less) may be carried on board for packing perishables providing the package is vented. 7. You must declare hazardous materials to Air Movement Officer or commercial airlines.
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