The T&T Civil Aviation Authority (TTCAA) has prohibited passengers from using air transportation while in possession of a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
The TTCAA, in a release yesterday, announced that it had issued a directive to ban the device.
The directive, TOD-005 went into effect on Thursday, October 20.
The directive follows reports of the battery exploding in the device posing significant negative safety impact/implications to the users and their surroundings.
Samsung has recalled all the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide due to exploding battery fears.
The TTCAA specifically prohibits people from "offering for air transportation or transporting by aircraft any Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device on their person, in carry-on baggage, in checked baggage, or as cargo, or shipping it via air cargo."
The directive also requires national and foreign aircraft operators and pilots-in-command of general aviation aircraft to alert passengers to the prohibition against air transport of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices, in particular, immediate prior to boarding, and to deny boarding to a passenger in possession of a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device unless and until the passenger divests himself and his baggage of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device.
The directive is applicable to:
a)All national and foreign aircraft operators conducting flights operations to, from and within Trinidad and Tobago;
b)Pilots-in-command of national and foreign aircraft;
c)Cabin crew; and
d)Aircraft passengers.