Abstract: A cargo latch, particularly for securing pallets or containers within an aircraft compartment, of the kind comprising two pivotal latch-arms movable between an operative position in which one arm engages an item of cargo to be secured and the other maintains that one arm in the operative position, nd the collapsed position in which the item of cargo is freed. In such a structure there is provided a catch element for preventing the inadvertent movement of the latch-arms from the operative to the collapsed position.