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Old Oct 12, 2015, 1:09 pm
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autumnmist
 
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Originally Posted by VibeGuy
I would *really* not want to be that card reader/battery sled supplier right now.

Lithium-Ion batteries are one of the few things in this world where price and quality are nearly perfectly positively correlated AND a failure can be quite literally catastrophic.

The only saving grace is that it was a small battery that cooked off - I'm fairly confident in stating that the entire complement of extinguishers on a narrowbody aircraft don't have the capacity to completely extinguish a gaming-laptop-sized battery that is actually aflame and not just smoking.
Seattle Times just posted:
The card reader was a new device recently introduced on Alaska aircraft. The devices are now being removed and inspected.

Yeah, and wasn't the FAA paying extra attention to Lithium-Ion batteries just this past week?
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