FAA: No Plans to Ground Laptops
Wayne Rash writes on eWeek:
The television images of flaming Dell laptops may be fun to watch, but to the Federal Aviation Administration, those laptops are not a significant problem for air travel.More here.
Dick Hill, the FAA's program manager for Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research, has been testing lithium ion batteries like those used in laptops to see how likely they are to catch on fire, and how hard they are to extinguish if they do start burning. Hill works at the William J. Hughes FAA Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, in New Jersey.
posted by Fergie @ 8/15/2006 04:32:00 PM
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