Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes, raising fire alarms [Financial Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)]
UL Solutions Inc. Class A (ULS)
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Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28% from 2019 to 2023, although such events remain relatively rare, UL Standards said in a report released Monday. E-cigarettes overheated more often than any other device, based on reports from 35 airlines, according to the report. In 60% of the cases, the overheating — called thermal runaway _ happened near the seat of the passenger who brought the device on board. In July, a smoking laptop in a passenger's bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff at San Francisco International Airport. Last year, a flight from Dallas to Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an overhead bin. More than one-quarter of passengers surveyed for the study said they put vaping cigare
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