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Passengers of Southwest Airlines soon need to keep portable chargers in simple sight while using them because of concerns about the increasing number of Battery fires in the trap To a new policy that can be used on other planes.
The Southwest announced the new policy that can implement May 28 and says passengers may have seen notifications about the Airlelle’s App Answers. While the Southwest was the first US Airline to restrict the use of portable chargers, many Asian planes were able to take action earlier in a year after a year after a year after a year after one year Can destroy fire on board a plane of Air Busan waiting to be taken from a South Korean airport in January.
There is a growing concern about lithium-ion batteries in planes because the number of incidents continues to grow each year, and the devices powered by battery spirits. There are 19 incidents involving these batteries this year, after recording last year 89, according to the Federal Aviation Administration statistics.
Incidents have more than doubling from cumulative-era in 39 of 209 in 2020, and increased each year.
Compared to nearly 180,000 flights US Airlines flights work weekly, the number of incidents relatively small and trap batteries can overheat somehow. However, this is a growing concern for planes.
In Korean Airline Fire in January, all 176 people aboard the plane should be evacuated because the blast burned on the roof of the plane. The cause of that fire is not officially determined, but many planes and korean regultors move against portable chargers afterwards.
Korean Airlinin not allowed chargers stored in overhead glasses; They should be wrapped in a plastic bag or have ports covered by insulate tape to prevent them with touched metal.
In addition, Singapore Airlines And Thai Airways are both prohibiting using or charging portable electric banks during trips.
Last summer, A Smoking Laptop In the bag of a passenger caused an evacuation of a plane waiting for the acquisition of International Airport in San Francisco. Of 2023, a flight from Dallas to Orlanda, Florida, an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery burned fire in an overhead bin.
Southwest says these chargers are in store in the open if it is helpful because “in the rare access to a firearms with a strong vision and helping with all understanding and helping to take care of all entry.”
The plane lets the chargers are stored within bags that carry the bags unused.
the Managing transport security Long time to prohibit e-cigarettes and chargers and Power Banks with lithium-ion batteries in new bags, but allows them to carry bags. The rule is accurate because cargo hound fires can be harder to find and extinguish.
The FAA recommends passengers to keep cell phones and other devices near the planes so they can easily access them quickly. The agency said the flying crew was trained to recognize and respond to lithium battery fires. Passengers should immediately inform the flight crews if their lithium or device battery is heating, expanding, smoking or burning.
A previous one report Released last year by UL standards over a quarter of passengers surveyed for this study said they put cigars and portable chargers in new bags. Which is against federal rules.
UL and joint patterns, about a safety-science company formerly known as laboratory laboratories, which are based on the found data from 35 passenger cargo.
This story originally shown Fortune.com
