All Commercial aircrafts carry this dangerous tool in the cockpit. Did you know?
Anyone who has travelled through an airport has personally experienced the strictness of airport security. Along with sawn-off shotguns, sabres and cricket bats, axes are expressly forbidden as carry-on items for passengers.
There are rigid rules about what you can and cannot take on a plane, both in the hold and the cabin.
Not only do you have to separate your liquids from your hand luggage, but you’re also banned from taking many items on board altogether.
Passengers are prohibited from carrying weapons, or anything that could be used as a weapon, on commercial flights.
But there is at least one exception to this rule and it’s found in the cockpit of the plane.
“Each airplane accommodating more than 19 passengers must be equipped with a crash axe.”
FAA Section 91.513 states:
According to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), all commercial aircrafts must carry an axe in the cockpit.
AXE Location
The axe is installed as a fire fighting device, so crew can cut away cockpit or other panels in the event of an electrical fire.
But the CAA concedes “many” aircraft carry them for emergencies.
Moreover, there is no specific legislation in the the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) the FAA’s UK counterpart about axes on planes.
“There is no specific regulation requiring an axe to be carried in cockpits.“Many aircraft have a small axe fitted somewhere in the cockpit to allow the pilots to break the windscreen if necessary during an emergency evacuation.”
A spokesperson told Express.co.uk
Onboard Happenings where this dangerous equipment is used.
Prosecution sources in France also said Captain Patrick Sonderheimer used “an onboard axe” part of the Airbus A320’s safety equipment as it flew from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
He had been locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.
Prosecutors investigating the crash which left 150 people dead said Lubitz, who had been suffering from depression, had “deliberately” destroyed the plane.
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