Originally Posted by
flieduk
I suppose there may be an issue as to how clearly he explained what he was carrying to BA and whether or not BA could have been expected to anticipate that shock absorbers often contain compressed gas.
IME most of the time they don't really read and understand the emails they receive, the fact that the answer appears to be relevant to the question may be a pure coincidence here and have misled the OP to think they know they are talking about.