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Boeing Warns Airlines: Battery Shipments Can Burn Hot Enough to Destroy a Plane
When MH370 went missing in March of 2014, among the first details to draw scrutiny was the contents of the cargo hold: The Boeing 777, bound for Beijing, was carrying a large shipment of lithium-ion batteries. Boeing has just taken the unusual step of warning its airline customers that large shipments of the batteries—used throughout the world in cellphones, laptops, and other indispensable gadgets—could cause fires intense enough to destroy a commercial airliner. (www.popularmechanics.com) More...
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Gonna get real interesting, whether it's ever found to be a part of MH370 or not. They have already took down a UPS 747. In the absence of fireproof packaging, maybe the need to reduce shipping to a quantity that the current extinguishing systems can handle. That will probably cause a big gripe from those manufacturers but better them than pilots grumbling and/or new extinguishing systems.
Fire would never have taken out MH370. The transponders are in the front, ACARS in the Electronics bay and AES terminal in the back. There is the adjacent equipment/wiring and fire, especially intense lithium batteries compromises the aircraft structure. 9M-MRO continued on for over 7 hours with a specific flight profile and altitude changes. Someone had to have programmed the FIS and controlled the aircraft.
This is a general warning from Boeing for all carriers. I am unsure of the ignition source for used batteries. Hope my laptop doesn't ignite.
This is a general warning from Boeing for all carriers. I am unsure of the ignition source for used batteries. Hope my laptop doesn't ignite.
MH370 was airborne for more than eight hours after the final voice transmission. It seems unlikely that it would have been able to keep aloft that long if a otherwise disabling fire had broken out in the cargo hold.
That's what has always puzzled me. I could see the 1st turn and communication going away as if a fire and all as it lined up on an alternate airport. When it went past that it was as if it was under control of somebody, so IDK.
I find this very strange as the RC model community has known and uses special boxes to transport and store them because of problems. Some have even brought down model planes which have no special shields for the battery's. Seems that they are a little behind times at the cost of at least one known crash.
Little behind the times is really not even close. How many years since that UPS crash over in the mid-East. Oh, I forgot, just 2 pilots, no pax on that flight.
Ya no pax just the cannon fodder up front can replace those with robots one day. It does get kind of tiresome reading things like this showing how far behind the eight ball they are.
