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 ...

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An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing on Saturday when a passenger’s device caught fire after takeoff, marking the latest in a string of alarming incidents involving lithium ...

Almost every passenger carries lithium-ion batteries onto airplanes – in their phones, laptops, rechargeable powerpacks and even vapes. And when something goes wrong with one of them, Federal Aviation ...

Passenger set on fire in airport lounge due to freak accident involving power bank - Qantas lounge staff rush out nearly 150 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are ...