Limits on E-Cigarettes
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has moved to restrict carriage and use of e-cigarettes and other battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices on aircraft.
ICAO said in mid-June that it had amended the 2015–2016 edition of Document 9284, Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, to prohibit carriage of e-cigarettes and similar devices in checked baggage and to ban their recharging in aircraft cabins.
ICAO Council President Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said the organization acted in response to several reported incidents in which fires broke out aboard aircraft and were traced to the accidental activation of e-cigarette heating elements (ASW, 6/15).
“We had already recommended that our member states take action on these concerns late last year, but after a further review by our Dangerous Goods Panel, it was…
