KNIFE in checked baggage.

[Duderino]

Can some of you airline guys tell me whether or not it is legal to put a knife in my checked bag. I accidentally left it in my Carry On computer bag, and it wasn't found. I want to make sure I won't have bad luck on the way home.
Thanks
Dude

 

[T-Gates]

I'd mail it home.... Not to say The TSAssholes wont miss it again, but If they were to find it, you might make the front page of CNN.com....

"Pilot Tries To Board Plane with Knife"

I don't like the sound of that....

 

[vclean]

Checked luggage is fine, since you have no access.

 

[pilot_guy]

checked baggage isn't a problem.

If it's in your checked bag, it's a non-event. I carry a Glock 26 9mm when I go out of town, and I just put it in my checked baggage, and let the TSA know it's there. No worries. They take a look, say, "Ok, fine." and I'm on my way. If not that, I usually always have a knife in my checked baggage.

Like the poster before me said, you don't have access, so they don't care.

 

[Duderino]

Thanks for the info. I got a two out of three response, sounds good enough to me. I will keep it in my checked bag.

Peas
Dude

 

[FN FAL]

If it's in your checked bag, it's a non-event. I carry a Glock 26 9mm when I go out of town, and I just put it in my checked baggage, and let the TSA know it's there. No worries. They take a look, say, "Ok, fine." and I'm on my way. If not that, I usually always have a knife in my checked baggage.

Like the poster before me said, you don't have access, so they don't care.

Civilians check registered machinguns in as checked luggage all the time.

 

[Singlecoil]

Thanks for the info. I got a two out of three response, sounds good enough to me. I will keep it in my checked bag.

Peas
Dude

www.tsa.gov has the complete list of prohibited items, as well as what can be carried in carry-on's vs. checked.

 

[Swede]

A week ago, RNO to ORD, our #1 FA caught a passenger cutting an apple with a swiss army knife. She confiscated the knife and delivered it to us in the CP.

Now we are faced with a quandary. The passenger was an innocent elderly woman. TSA in RNO obviously screwed up on this one. Our options were limited. We thought about returning the knife when we deplaned, but that would leave the knife in the woman's possession in ORD on the secure side. We finally determined that there was no other way than to snitch, which we did via ACARS to dispatch.

We knew the airplane would be met at the gate. Our hope was that cool heads would prevail, and that a SWAT team wouldn't haul the woman off in flex-cuffs. Amazingly, the opposite happened. Corporate security and a single TSA suit met the woman, talked with her for 3 minutes, confiscated the knife, and sent her on her way. Don't know what happened to the RNO TSA crew, but it probably wasn't pretty.

 

[nosewheel]

For the past couple of years I've kept my leatherman in my checked bag. Flying a freighter still allows me access to it in flight should I need it. Sometimes though we go through crew customs/security (eg Hong Kong ) and carry our bags directly to the airplane however, security has spotted suspicious items while going through Xray in my big bag. While my leatherman remained inches from these items they have confiscated my "cork screw" and my tiny folding pair of scissors but not my leatherman. All we have to do to get these items back is sign a piece of paper declaring that these items are required for our job as a flight deck crewmember. I always get my corkscrew back !

 

[OhDannyBoy]

The Safe-er-izer

At PLS, we routinely place out leathermen on the x-ray machine and pick it up on the other side. Our Chief Pilot has, on occasion explained that it has a knife blade on it and inquired as to what it was they were looing for. The reply is usually just a nod and a point to the conveyor belt. The sad part is that right outside of the domestic departure exit there is usually an AA 757 or US Airways 319 parked.

We fly aztecs and 402s, so the need for tools is obvious

LOL...(Before CRM) " I am the Captain and I can kill us if I want to!" a true statement said to me..... Once.