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Passengers Southwest Airlines Flights will soon be required to use them as they use portable charger, as due to their growing number of concerns Lithium battery fires In a new policy accepted by other airlines.
Southwest has announced a new policy to enter into force on May 28 and may have already seen notifications of the rule when using the airline application. Southwest is the first airline to restrict the use of portable charger, several Asian airline moved earlier this year earlier this year devastating fire In January, an air aircraft waiting to get out of an airport in South Korea on the plane.
There are concerns related to lithium-ion battery fires in the planes, because the number of events continues to grow annually, and these batteries are equipped. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, 19 people this year were 19 people this year, 19 people were involved in these batteries. statistics.
Events in 2020, 39 were 39, doubled since the Pandemic-cycle and climbed each year.
Each week, the number of events compared to about 180,000 flights of the US Airlines can still be small and lithium batteries overturn. However, this is a growing concern for the airlines.
The Korean airline had to be evacuated in the burning fire in January, 176 plane was burned with the roof of the plane. The cause of that fire was not officially determined, but several airline and Korean regulators later took action against portable charging.
Korean Airlines do not allow to store charger excess surface containers; They should be accumulated to either plastic bag or should be covered with ported ribbons to refrain from touching the metal.
In addition, Singapore Airlines Both Thai Airways ban the use or charge of portable energy banks during flights.
Last summer, Smoking laptop In the passenger bag, a plane waiting for a flight at the San Francisco International Airport was evacuated. In 2023, Florida, Florida, Florida, from Dallas to Orlando, made an emergency landing, after a battery fired in an overhead container.
Southwest, when these charger are used, it will help when they are used, because a lithium battery or firefighter in the unique event helps protect everyone who allows you to keep energy companies fast. “
The airline will allow storage in bags when not used in chargers.
This Transportation Security Department Power plants with e-cigarettes and charger and charger and lithium-ion batteries with lithium-ion batteries Allows them in bags. The rule is accurate as it may be difficult to capture and turn off and turn off.
FAA passengers recommends that the recommenders recommend that they can enter them quickly. The agency has trained to recognize and respond to lithium battery fires of flight groups. Passengers must immediately notify the flight group if the lithium battery or device is excessive warming, expansion, smoking or burned.
Previous report Last year, e-cigarettes released with UL standards and signs said he warmed more than any other device. More than a quarter of the surveyed passengers for this work, they have laid cigarettes and portable charging in checked bags, he said. Against federal regulations.
UL standards and engagement, part of a security-scientific company known as the labs, 35 passenger carriers, including 35 passenger and cargo information, said their findings on data from 35 passengers and cargo airways.
This story was first displayed Fortune.com
