What can you carry on a plane

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FlyboyAl

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Just got this from ABC7 news in the US

BREAKING NEWS: A smoke grenade, hatchet, body bags, bio hazard suit, duct tape, hand cuffs, and more!

All found in a man’s luggage at LAX. And see what authorities found on him, when they searched him.


Don't have any more details, but maybe the US have relaxed the carry on rules:mrgreen:
 
Oops, looks like the problem was in Japan when he boarded.
Maybe he was going to a fancy dress party for a Presidential fund raiser!
I'm laughing at the moment, but also thinking what a stuff up this was at the boarding end of the flight!

A man who arrived in Los Angeles on a flight from Japan wearing a bulletproof vest and flame retardant pants underneath his trench coat has been charged with transporting dangerous materials, federal authorities said Tuesday.
As if the gear allegedly worn by Yongda Huang Harris wasn't alarming enough, authorities say he was also transporting assorted weapons, biohazard suits and body bags in his carry-on luggage.
Harris, 28, was arrested Friday and is expected to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. He is charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials with a possible maximum sentence of up to five years in prison.

DOCUMENT: Man arrested at LAX for transporting hazardous materials
A resident of Boston, Harris was due to fly home after arriving at LAX from Japan. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers observed his unusual choice in clothing and immediately referred him for secondary inspection. The search turned up items that in addition to the body bags and biohazard suits included a pyrotechnic smoke grenade, three leather-coated billy clubs, a collapsible baton, a full-face respirator, various knives, a hatchet, handcuffs, leg irons and a device to repel dogs, authorities said.
According to a federal affidavit, the Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad X-rayed the smoke grenade and determined that it was a prohibited device because it could fill the cabin of an airplane with smoke or cause a fire.
A formal investigation was opened by special agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, and investigators are working closely with HSI’s attache office in Tokyo.
Harris, a U.S. citizen of Chinese descent, had been living and working recently in Japan. It was not immediately clear how or why the items were not detected at the airport where he departed in Japan.
 
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