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49 C.F.R. § 175.75   Quantity limitations aboard aircraft.

Title 49 - Transportation

Title 49: Transportation
PART 175—CARRIAGE BY AIRCRAFT
Subpart B—Loading, Unloading and Handling

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§ 175.75   Quantity limitations aboard aircraft.

(a) Except as provided in §175.85(c)(3), no person may carry on an aircraft:

(1) A hazardous material except as permitted by this subchapter;

(2) More than 25 kg (55 pounds) net weight of hazardous material (and in addition thereto, 75 kg (165 pounds) net weight of Division 2.2 (non-flammable compressed gas) materials permitted to be carried aboard passenger-carrying aircraft:

(i) In an inaccessible cargo compartment,

(ii) In any freight container within an accessible cargo compartment, or

(iii) In any accessible cargo compartment in a cargo aircraft only in a manner that makes it inaccessible unless in a freight container;

(3) Packages containing Class 7 (radioactive) materials when their combined transport index number (determined by adding together the transport index numbers shown on the labels of the individual packages and/or overpacks):

(i) In passenger carrying aircraft, exceeds 50.0 or, for any single package, exceeds 3.0, or

(ii) In cargo aircraft only, exceeds 200.00 (for fissile Class 7 (radioactive) materials, see §175.702(b)(2)(iv)) or, for any single package, exceeds 10.0.

(b) No limitation applies to the number of packages of Class 9 (miscellaneous hazardous) materials, or ORM-D materials aboard an aircraft.

[Amdt. 175–1A, 41 FR 40686, Sept. 20, 1976, as amended by Amdt. 175–13, 45 FR 20101, Mar. 27, 1980; Amdt. 175–25, 47 FR 54823, Dec. 6, 1982; Amdt. 175–29, 48 FR 50461, Nov. 1, 1983; Amdt. 175–47, 55 FR 52685, Dec. 21, 1990; 66 FR 45184, Aug. 28, 2001]

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