Security-approved corkscrew?
 

Is there a corkscrew that one can carry onboard?

Corkscrews are expressly prohibited:

http://www.tsa.gov/workingwithtsa/ai..._prohibit.shtm

You might call the TSA hazardous materials info center if you want to drill into it more.

Arghh!

birdstrike

I had accidentially left one of those corkscrews that has two tines on it in my computer bag. The security screener saw it on the x-ray (which means countless others didn't see it), pulled it out and asked me what it was. After I explained that it was a corkscrew and described how it worked, she shrugged her shoulders and put it back in the bag.

Needless to say, it's in my check-in bag, now.

Gettting ready to leave tomorrow, I was just cleaning out a bag tonight that I carried on from BOS EWR JFK AMS FRA EWR BOS in mid June then late June from BOS DTW KIX TPE KIX DTW BOS and found a plastic corkscrew in one of the inner pouches of the bag. The plastic cover of the corkscrew slides through an opening at the top of the screw.
I didn't mean to do it, but no one stopped me. Maybe because it was plastic, it didn't show.
From the old days, I used to place corkscrews in all my bags because I hated being caught somehwere around the world without one. Will have to check all my bags.

Strange that I can fly with razor blades but not a corkscrew. I wonder when the FAA is going to put their crack pipe down and become sensible again...