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Title: US testing shows aircraft safety systems can't prevent lithium-ion battery fire, explosion
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/business ... ries-alarms-aviation-officials
Published: May 1, 2015
Author: JOAN LOWY, Associated Press
Post Date: 2015-05-02 17:07:33 by Operation 40
Keywords: Tesla, Lithium, Battery
Views: 2958
Comments: 4
WASHINGTON (AP) — International aviation officials are trying to quickly come up with safer packaging for cargo shipments of lithium-ion batteries on passenger planes after U.S. testing confirmed that aircraft fire suppression systems can't prevent overheated batteries from causing powerful explosions and fires. The hazardous cargo committee of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency, met this week in Montreal. Officials familiar with the discussions said the panel heard a detailed presentation by aircraft manufacturers and pilot unions on the potential for the batteries to cause an explosion and resulting fire capable of destroying a plane. The committee agreed to create a special working group to try to come up with packaging for batteries that would contain any fire or explosive gases to the inside of the package, officials said. If the working group cannot come up with such packaging, officials said they consider it likely that a formal proposal to ban bulk battery shipments from passenger planes will be offered at an ICAO meeting on dangerous cargo in October. The batteries are used in devices from cellphones to electric cars. It's not unusual for as many as 80,000 batteries to be carried on board a plane. The global battery industry has been lobbying heavily against significant restrictions on battery shipments other than minor changes to current regulations. Testing by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration over the past year and a half has repeatedly shown that a single short-circuiting battery in a large shipment of batteries can cause overheating to spread to other batteries. Fire suppression systems have been able to put out the initial flames, but they haven't been able to stop the spread of continually increasing temperatures known as thermal runaway...SNIP It's just a matter of time before a Tesla car or home battery pack catches on fire.
FILE - This file frame grab from video, provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shows a test at the FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, N.J. International aviation officials are trying to quickly come up with safer packaging for air cargo shipments of lithium-ion batteries, after U.S. testing confirmed that aircraft. Credit: FAA
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
WOW ... oh WOW... a dinky, wittle UN agency met this week concerning imaginary issues that potentially can happen but probably won't. I wager they demand their paycheck drained from US taxpayers for nothing more than hot-aire because they have nothing else to do in life. We are saved!
Hydrogen vehicle explosion.
It's actually a bit west of Atlantic City on the mainland They wanted me to apply and work there with them.
When I was In the Junior Naval ROTC we took a trip No memorial, no statue, no plaque - nothing.
.... a U.N. agency, met this week in Montreal.
#2. To: Operation 40 (#0)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: Operation 40 (#0)
FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, N.J.
in Pamona if I remember correctly. I know several people
who work/worked there over the years. But me, work for the
gubmint? Eh.
But I never did. Heck, by now I could have great benefits
and/or even be retired. Whatever.
#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
to Lakehurst, NJ where the Hindenburg crashed.
I have no idea why. There is nothing there but
an expanse of slightly scorched concrete.
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