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1.Could an explosive goods be loaded into a passenger aircraft?
Do you recall the notice at airport check-in counter regarding how power bank for your cell phone is strictly prohibited to be loaded into your checked-in luggage and can only be loaded into your hand-carried luggage?
Image above shows the example notice of power bank prohibition in checked-in baggage.
Why? Because there is a risk for your power bank to catch a fire or explode and a fire in the aircraft cabin can be put out by the trained cabin crew while any fire at the cargo bay's checked-in luggage will potentially leads to a catastrophic fire disaster.
However, there are still some demands in the market to transport explosive material that is very dangerous such as dynamite quickly thus the cargo aviation market has become the supplier then.
Image above shows the luggage of passengers being loaded into an aircraft cargo compartment.
2.CAO and DGR
Any dangerous cargo to be transported by air means should not be on the same flight with normal passengers in order to prevent any potential harm to passengers. Consequently, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has stipulated the CAO label, which the statement of "Cargo-Aircraft-Only" should be labeled on all dangerous category goods.
Image above shows the CAO label.
The CAO itself is quite self-explanatory, which means that particular item could only be transported by cargo aircraft only and it's meant to be functioned as a warning to the cargo loaders to never ever load it into a passenger airplane. However, what items are considered as dangerous goods and needed a CAO label? Check out all the classifications below!
Image above shows the classification and its respective label for dangerous goods as stipulated by IATA's Dangerous Goods Regulation (DGR).
3.NOTOC and Cargo Pilots
The only people to fly with those dangerous items are the pilots of those cargo aircrafts, thus they are the professional people who are trained to handle the transportation of these dangerous cargo in the air and have to be informed what they are flying in each and every flight. As a result, a NOTOC is a must.
Image above shows an example of a NOTOC.
NOTOC stands for Notification To Captain, which is a document informing the captain of that cargo flight regarding what dangerous items have been loaded into that aircraft so that the captain will be able to predict what precaution is needed in different kind of emergency scenarios to avoid any disaster caused by that dangerous goods following his or her misjudgment. For instance, a cargo aircraft loaded with explosive materials that has unfortunately caught an engine fire is horribly fatal as those explosive material could explode anytime due to the fire which an emergency and prioritized landing is required.
Image above shows a Boeing 747 freighter loading cargo.
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