Electronic Cigarette fire on JetBlue Aeroplane

[Ecigzone]

An Aeroplane in Boston, USA was evacuated because baggage handlers could smell smoke coming from the luggage. After inspection they found than an electronic cigarette had caught fire and burned a small hole in a bag, or had it?

Could this lead to an e-cig ban on aeroplanes?

http://www.ecigzone.co.uk/blogs/ecigzone-blog/15162557-electronic-cigarette-fire-causes-aeroplane-evacuation

 

[mrdelmonti]

Interesting that they are saying that was the cause but the fire department hasn't actually confirmed it.

Either way I could see it causing a knee jerk reaction.

That said there might be sense in stopping them from being held in the cargo and only allowing them as hand luggage, even if you take out the danger of batteries (they don't explode on their own after all) they are battery powered heating elements more than capable of starting a fire.

 

[Fubar1977]

Batteries of this type are not supposed to be transported in hold baggage in any case.
This could just as easily be a laptop, mobile phone or tablet, indeed any advice with a rechargeable battery has the potential to catch fire.

As do lighters and boxes of matches.

How long will it be before you are only allowed to fly naked with 1 small, clear plastic bag with a toothbrush in it?

 

[twoeyedbob]

:-)

 

[Ecigzone]

Batteries of this type are not supposed to be transported in hold baggage in any case.
This could just as easily be a laptop, mobile phone or tablet, indeed any advice with a rechargeable battery has the potential to catch fire.

As do lighters and boxes of matches.

How long will it be before you are only allowed to fly naked with 1 small, clear plastic bag with a toothbrush in it?

How long before a toothbrush would be deemed a dangerous weapon? In fact, everything you stated could be dangerous; you could fight your way into the cockpit with your toothbrush then suffocate the pilot with a plastic bag

 

[steffijade]

What's that quote again? We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Seems to be standard practice to induce fear in the public so that they'll gladly accept restrictions/rules to supposedly allay the fear.

 

[Bobw1951]

It is quite easy to go to an airlines website and check what you can and cannot put in checked luggage/carry-on luggage, why don't these idiots check first.

Lithium batteries MUST be in carry-on baggage and loose batteries MUST be either in those plastic boxes made for them or have the contacts taped over with insulating tape.

It's not Rocket Science.

 

[jediknight129]

But with restrictions changing all the time and being blatantly arbitrary and stupid I can't really blame people for getting things wrong especially after my own experiences being berated and screamed at by some twerp with a badge because I had done what the airline told me to do but wasn't apparantly the right thing to do at that particular airport. The rules said you could fly with a zip pocket full but had to have it on your body not in hand luggage or an empty one in the hold inside the faa approved zippo case and he decided I was wrong and should have bought the faa approved zippl case inside my hand luggage. Same guy screamed at me for putting my medication in a clear bag with proof so I had 2 baggies one of liquid ine or drugs as I had been told to do. The rules change based on what the guy on security who flunked out of the police academy (refering to TSA here) or the minimum wage contract guard who hates his job decides it should be. I had a bag go through 3 sets of security in total on a transatlantic trip and the 3 inch folding knife wasn't found til I emptied the bag in my new dorm room. (I fucked up on that one It shouldn't have been there I admit but still...)

90 percent of what is done on the passenger level is security theatre to make people feel sale and ìñù most cases it misses legitimate threats and in some cases creates them. I.E look at the way the carry on search is, slow, with hundreds of people packed in a tight confused mass. How easy would it be to walk up and detonate a bag on the 'wrong' side of the barriers. How much damage would tht do to morale and the fear level as the passengers realise the security is an arbitrary line.

The only thing that does work in terms of threats is the Israeli method but apparantly 'profilong' is bad and awful and none p.c so they don't use targeted searching based on known likely threats because of the hand wringing and the r word.

Instead they do insane things like rather than letting me have my chair in the airport they insisted I check it and use a hideous awful airport provided folding bag of shit and because I didn't go through the securit to sit at my gate Imediately after transfer instead doing a little shopping and killing time before the joys of staring at a can I board yet screen for hours. When I went through security in a airport provided chair they pulled me out of the chair hurting me quite allot, forcing me to walk through the scanner without any support and interrogated me as to why I hadn't come through Imediately why there wasn't a member of staff pushing me and thoroughly degraded me whilst searching the chair for bomb and drug residue.

The only thing done wrong was the owner didn't lock the devices fire button, however given the current state of affairs I know the FAA would quite like a 'reichstag fire' to justify changes to the rules and taking a far harder control of the us market.

 

[Mawsley]

It is quite easy to go to an airlines website and check what you can and cannot put in checked luggage/carry-on luggage, why don't these idiots check first.

Lithium batteries MUST be in carry-on baggage and loose batteries MUST be either in those plastic boxes made for them or have the contacts taped over with insulating tape.

It's not Rocket Science.

It may as well be.

If fifteen yrs teaching mostly physics and science showed me anything it's that the stupidest person in the room is spectacularly stupid - and yet still only average for the whole population.

 

[jediknight129]

That's the scary thing is people can be both stupid and so confident they know what they are doing