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Security instructions

Before you pack your luggage, check to make sure that the goods or substances that you are taking with you are permitted on the helicopter.

You may not take into the aircraft cabin any objects that might harm other passengers or crew. Your luggage may not contain any inflammable, explosive, poisonous, corrosive or otherwise dangerous substances.

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Also remember:

- To pack your luggage yourself
- Never offer to take on board any articles belonging to a stranger, no matter how sincerely you wish to help
- Make sure you know the contents of any packages which you pack
- Never leave your baggage unattended

The items listed below must either be packed in your cargo-hold luggage or left at home. You may not take them into the helicopter cabin.

- Firearms: any weapon capable of firing a projectile by explosive force, air pressure or gas, including starter pistols and signal flare guns.
- Knives and cutters: including scissors, razor blades, sabres, swords, box cutters and craft knives, hunting knives, souvenir knives; any items used in martial arts; tools.
- Anything that can be used as a bludgeon: cudgels, truncheons, flash lamps (over 30 cm), large sporting equipment such as baseball bats, golf clubs, hockey sticks or the equivalent.
- Substances or objects that can cause injury or incapacity: any equipment that can cause incapacitation, for example through electric shock.
- Other items: such as skates, ice picks, ski poles and walking sticks, knitting needles, fishing gears, handcuffs, toy or replica guns and grenades.
- Any object which may reasonably be believed could be used to imitate a lethal weapon, including any object resembling a bomb or gun or any other dangerous item.

In the main, items on the following list should be left at home and replaced with corresponding ones when you reach your destination. It is forbidden to take onto the helicopter any bottles or containers marked with a symbol indicating poisonous, corrosive or highly inflammable substances.

 

 

- Liquid, pressurized, inflammable or poisonous gases (e.g. butane cartridges for camping stoves, divers’ oxygen or air cylinders, fire extinguishers, acetylene, liquid nitrogen, ammonia, chlorine)
- Flammable liquids and solids (e.g. paints, turpentine, petroleum, diesel oil, celluloid, phosphorous, calcium carbide, sodium)
- Explosives, ammunition, fireworks and signal flares
- Corrosive substances (e.g. liquid batteries, sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxide, mercury)
- Oxidizing substances (e.g. bleaches, chemical oxygen generators, ammonium nitrate fertilizers, calcium chlorate)
- Poisons and infectious substances (e.g. arsenic, nicotine, pesticides, bacteria, viruses)
- Radioactive material (e.g. radioactive sources used in industry or medicine, cobalt 60, caesium 131)
- Other dangerous substances (e.g. asbestos, dry ice, powerful magnets, combustion engines, environmental poisons)

However, passengers may take certain substances and requisites categorized as dangerous onto the helicopter, in accordance with regulations. For example, passengers may take into the cabin a box of matches or cigarette lighter carried in a pocket. Requisites used for personal hygiene or health care, such as medicines for your own use or aerosol hair sprays, may either be carried as hand luggage or cargo hold luggage. Up to two litres of these may be carried, but each individual container may not exceed half a litre.

Source and more information: http://www.ilmailuhallinto.fi/matkustajienturva