Can Rebreather electronics go as hand luggage

Timbo

So not even dive computers in hand luggage then. Which airline did you fly with was it excel?

and thanks to all for responses, although NO definitive answers, gues i will have to gamble!!

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We shipped some cells as hold luggage and they were damaged. We had tested them thoroughly (part of an O2 cell study) before the flight. After that, no cells in checked baggage.

On the rest of this thread, apart from super el-cheapo airlines, I take loads of stuff that looks bomb like. No problem at all. Big batteries, wired to obviously low run electronics etc. Just ensure it is clean of nitrates and nitrites. They hand check it. Try KLM. Do not try BA.

If I may waste space with a funny story, when United Airlines had their wonderful airport to airport shipping service on all their passenger planes, we sent an employee along to Glasgow airport with a spread spectrum thing (forerunner to Blue Tooth), to put on the next plane for an exhibition. I forgot he was Irish. Very heavy Northern Ireland accent. Working with people every day, one forgets this sort of thing. Obvious what happened next: they refused to take it - "Look what do you expect us to do, a guy turns up from Northern Ireland an hour before the flight with what looks like a home made bomb saying it has to go on just this flight". I rang the client's CEO (3am, in California: they do it to others, so must expect it back). They said, "Well it has to be here Alex, so just buy whatever ticket you need and put him on the plane with it and we will look after him in Las Vegas, then we'll claim it back off United." I thought, no chance, but if that is what the client tells us, that is what we do. Our Irish employee had a full schedule so he rang a friend who was long term unemployed, invited him to get to Glasgow Airport in 30 mins with his passport, which he did. Full price First Class ticket to Las Vegas, and back, nice hotel, all expenses paid for a week. "The home made bomb" won "Product of the Year" at COMDEX (world's largest electronics show) . Client was delighted . The chap's friend was most pleased with his holiday . United did refund the entire cost to our client. A $70 service, with $11,000 refund . You have to feel for the airlines when this happens . Every time I buy a ticket now, the tax is more than the cost of travel. No risk of running planes, bookings etc, just the government decided to take 100% of their revenue. Now one really has to feel for these guys. Between the client's lawyers and the government's lawyers, there is no hiding place.

Alex