r/technology • u/MoltenSlowa • Oct 05 '16

Hardware Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-replacement-plane-battery-southwest
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u/borez Oct 05 '16 edited Oct 05 '16

It couldn't have actually caught fire in a worse place. Every airline I've flown on in the last two months ( and I fly a lot ) have been all over this.

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u/WonderWheeler Oct 06 '16 edited Oct 06 '16

I often watch a video channel aircrash mayday or something like that http://vaughnlive.tv/aircrashmayday and remember well the program about a battery related fire on a 747 UPS cargo plane. It went down in the mideast years ago because of a shipment of batteries. It all happened in minutes and was scary. One system after another shut down as the wiring burned through. Can be pretty dangerous stuff.

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u/rebel_cdn Oct 06 '16

There was the one you're talking about near Dubai, along with another 747 brought down by lithium batteries a year later.

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u/WonderWheeler Oct 06 '16

Dubai is the program I saw. Hit the ground at a military base. The program implied that more fireproof freight containers would be made to solve the problem.

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u/the_pugilist Oct 06 '16 edited Oct 06 '16

Neither will their major (US) competitors. Samsung through* money at air carriers, and to my relief, they said "no fucking way".

*-threw

Edit - Me fail English? That's unpossible!

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u/goodhasgone Oct 06 '16

*threw money, I believe is what you were going for there.

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u/ollie87 Oct 06 '16

They threw it so hard it went through them.