Batteries on a Plane: 339 Burning Batteries Since 2003

As overreacting authorities busy themselves attach container of deadly shampoo , deodorant , toothpaste and hemorrhoid cream from nervous fliers , an even greater danger lies mighty under their noses : what about laptop batteries ? The US Consumer Product Safety Commission cites 339 representative of lithium and lithium - ion battery “ overheating , utter smoke and smoke or explode since 2003 . ”

Meanwhile , Dell responsibly reacts to the intelligence of its laptops catch on fervor ( see photo above ) with a vast recall involving multiple millions of Li - ion barrage fire units , while at the same time multiple thousands of these batteries are still fly in airplanes as you read this . That callback may not happen soon enough . Note to TSA and Dell : “ Dude , you ’re pay off into a fervid plane wreck . ”

Laptop shelling on sheet are an accident waiting to happen[The enquirer ]

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