---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 91.523"
title: "14"
number: "91.523"
heading: "Carry-on baggage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/91.523"
---

# §91.523. Carry-on baggage.


No pilot in command of an airplane having a seating capacity of more than 19 passengers may permit a passenger to stow baggage aboard that airplane except—

- (a) In a suitable baggage or cargo storage compartment, or as provided in [§ 91.525](/cfr/14/91.525.md); or
- (b) Under a passenger seat in such a way that it will not slide forward under crash impacts severe enough to induce the ultimate inertia forces specified in [§ 25.561(b)(3)](/cfr/14/25.561.md?p=b-3) of this chapter, or the requirements of the regulations under which the airplane was type certificated. Restraining devices must also limit sideward motion of under-seat baggage and be designed to withstand crash impacts severe enough to induce sideward forces specified in [§ 25.561(b)(3)](/cfr/14/25.561.md?p=b-3) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Source

Source: Docket 18334, 54 FR 34314, Aug. 18, 1989, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101, 40103, 40105, 40113, 40120, 44101, 44111, 44701, 44704, 44709, 44711, 44712, 44715,44716, 44717, 44722, 44740, 46306, 46315, 46316, 46504, 46506-46507, 47122, 47508,47528-47531, 47534; Pub. L. 112-95, 126 Stat. 11; Pub. L. 114-190, 130 Stat. 615 (49 U.S.C. 44703 note); sec. 828, Pub. L. 118-63, 138 Stat. 1330 (49 U.S.C. 44703 note); articles 12 and 29 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, 61 Stat. 1180.