Southwest Airlines tells passengers to keep chargers in plain sight as it tries to curtail lithium battery fires
Passengers Southwest Airlines Flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in a clear viewpoint when they use them over the growing number Lithium Battery Fires: In a new policy that can adopt other airlines.
Southwest has announced a new policy that will come into force on May 28, and passengers may have already seen notifications on the rules when using the airline. Before the South-West is the first US airline, it limits the use of portable chargers, several Asian airline have taken action at the beginning of this year. devastating fire In January, the airborne air plane waiting for the North Korean airport is waiting.
The fires on the lithium-ion batteries are growing, as the number of incidents continues to grow annually, and these batteries are widespread. This year, 19 incidents are already involved, this year this year, after the record above last year, according to Federal Aviation Management statisticsA number
The incidents have been more than doubled in 2020 below 39 and have reached a year.
Compared to the relatively approximately 180,000 flight, US airlines operate, the number of incidents is still relatively small, and LITERATORS can be overheating anywhere. However, this is a growing concern for airlines.
In January, all 176 people in the Korean Airlines were to evacuate, as the flame with the roof of the plane. The cause of this fire is not officially decided, but several airlines and Korean regulators have taken measures against portable chargers.
The Korean airline will not allow chargers to be held in overcrowded trash. They should either be packed in a plastic bag or have their ports covered with insulating tape to touch them from metal.
In addition, Singapore Airlines And the Thailand airways ban the use or discharge of portable electric banks during flights.
Last summer, Smoking laptop The passenger bag led to the evacuation of the expected plane of the plane at the San Francisco International Airport. In 2023, Florida Dallas’s Dallas flight made an emergency landing in Florida’s Josonyville after the battery Fire opened in head trashA number
The south-west said that demanding these chargers opened open when they would help them “because the” rare event in the lithium battery will allow you to protect everyone.
The airline will allow chargers to keep the chargers inside the stored bags when they are not used.
Is Transportation security management Electronic cigarettes and chargers and electric banks with lithium-ion batteries are forbidden in terms of test bags, but Allows them to move bagsA number of regulations exists just because the cargo fires can be more difficult to detect and repay.
FAA offers passengers to keep mobile phones and other devices near the planes so that they can access them quickly. The agency noted that the flight staff is made to recognize and answer lithium batteries. The passengers must immediately notify the flight staff if their lithium battery or device overheating, expanding, smoking or burning.
Previous transmit Last year, according to UL standards and involved, he said that e-cigarettes more often overeat than any other device. More than a quarter of the surveyed passengers say they put trapped cigarettes and removable chargers in checked bags. It’s against the federal rules.
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