CAA Act on Cabin Baggage

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If I understand correctly, the issue is that an item that is permitted in Cabin Baggage can be moved at the last minute to become Hold Baggage.

One of our crew procedures (in the manual and tested every year at safety exam time) is fire-fighting a lithium battery fire - usually in the form of a laptop fire - One of the better known videos is shown below. THe problem with fighting a burning battery is that a standard (BCF) extinguisher may not be up to the job: It may temporarily extinguish the fire, but since it has no cooling properties, it may not prevent re-ignition, or even heat transfer to adjacent battery cells. Another problem is that the fires tend to be explosive.

As long as these items are in the cabin, we can deal with them - as soon as they move to the hold, humans cannot do so until after landing: The aircraft hold fire extinguishers are the primary defence.

The issue of Dangerous Goods in checked (Hold) baggage is a disturbing one. Quite part from those people who are quite genuinely stupid (and decide to pack insane items in their suitcase, or who in knowledge of the regulations simply decide that the rules don't apply to them) there are those items that a reasonable person might conclude are safe to pack, when the truth is otherwise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlZggVrF9VI