Dangerous items forbidden for transportation

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Forbidden for transportation

The following dangerous substances and items are prohibited from being transported by crew members and passengers on board an aircraft, both in checked baggage and in items carried by passengers:

1. Explosives, detonating devices, and items containing them:
   • gunpowder in any packaging and quantity;
   • live ammunition (including small-caliber rounds);
   • ammunition for gas weapons;
   • hunting caps (primers);
   • pyrotechnic items: signal and illuminating flares, cartridges;
   • signal, landing flares, smoke cartridges (flares), blasting matches, sparklers, railway fireworks;
   • TNT, dynamite, hexogen, ammonal, and other explosive substances;
   • detonator caps, electric detonators, electric igniters, detonating and safety fuses, etc.
2. Compressed and liquefied gase:
   • household gases (butane-propane) and other gases;
   • Gas canisters filled with nerve or tear-inducing agents, etc.
3. Flammable liquids:
   • acetone, gasoline, samples of flammable petroleum products, methanol, methyl acetate (methyl ether), carbon disulfide, ethyl cellosolve ethers.
4. Flammable solids:
   • substances prone to spontaneous combustion;
   • substances that emit flammable gases when in contact with water, such as potassium, sodium, metallic calcium and their alloys, calcium phosphide, etc.;
   • white, yellow, and red phosphorus and other substances classified as flammable solids;
5. Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides:
   • colloidal nitrocellulose in granules or flakes, dry or moist, containing less than 25% water or solvent;
   • colloidal nitrocellulose in blocks, moist, containing less than 25% alcohol;
   • dry or moist nitrocellulose containing less than 30% solvent or 20% water, etc.
6. Toxic substances;
7. Radioactive materials;
8. Corrosive and caustic substances:
   • strong inorganic acids: hydrochloric, sulfuric, nitric, and others;
   • hydrofluoric (fluoric) acid and other strong acids and corrosive substances.
9. Poisonous and toxic substances:
   • any highly toxic and poisonous substances in liquid or solid form, packed in any container;
   • Brucine, nicotine, strychnine, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, antifreeze, brake fluid, ethylene glycol, mercury (except mercury in a medical thermometer, mercury blood pressure monitor in a standard case, mercury barometer or manometer in a sealed container with a sender’s seal); all cyanide salts and cyanide compounds, such as Zyklon, cyanplav, arsenic anhydride, etc.;
   • other hazardous substances, items, and cargo that could be used as weapons against passengers or crew, and that pose a risk to flight safety.
10. Weapons:
    • pistols, revolvers, rifles, carbines, and other firearms, gas weapons, pneumatic weapons, stun devices, daggers, stilettos, paratrooper bayonet knives, except as provided by and in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation;
    • other dangerous substances, items, and cargo that could be used as weapons against passengers, crew, or that pose a threat to flight safety.
11. Other:
    • Transporting urns with ashes is not allowed in carry-on or checked baggage, only by cargo shipment.