Revealed the real danger of smartphones on board the aircraft

In an airplane, passengers are often asked to turn off their mobile phone. But there is an unexpected danger, not related to whether your smartphone is turned on or not. Travel industry experts warned passengers of a potentially catastrophic situation that they might encounter if they dropped the phone behind the seat on board the aircraft.

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“When a smartphone falls behind a chair, it can break if the seat moves. In this case, it will end with damage to the lithium battery, which will result in a fire, ”the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority said in an Australian security agency, Lenta.ru.

Now all travelers are warned that they immediately inform the flight attendant if they dropped the phone under the seat. This is due to the last case, when the smartphone of a passenger flying by Qantas airline fell under the seat and caught fire. As a result, the pilot had to deploy the plane and urgently land it in Sydney to put out the fire.

In August, passengers departing from Barcelona had to urgently leave the board after the portable charging unit exploded on board. The incident occurred on an airplane airline Ryanair. The charger caught fire when it was connected to the phone of one of the travelers, allegedly a citizen of New Zealand.

Last year, on board the Airbus A380-800 aircraft of the German airline Lufthansa, en route Frankfurt am Main (Germany) - Houston (USA), a portable battery belonging to one of the passengers caught fire. The charger fell under the seat and suddenly ignited. None of the passengers was injured. Liner A380-800 landed at Houston airport according to schedule.

We already wrote about how one battery in a luggage can destroy a whole plane. A series of tests conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) showed that overheating and the subsequent ignition of just one lithium-ion battery could lead to the suppression of fire extinguishing systems in the luggage compartment of commercial passenger airliners, and also cause air crashes.

Lithium-ion batteries are the most popular type of battery in modern gadgets due to their high energy efficiency and long service life. They are currently used in almost all types of portable electronic devices, including laptops, music players, cameras, tablets and cell phones.

These types of batteries are capable of spontaneous combustion, although the likelihood of this is very low, but several cases have already been recorded, in large quantities this happened with the batteries in the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.

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