Batteries On a Plane: ; What Would Happen If a Laptop Caught Fire in Flight?

Sunday Gazette-Mail (November 12, 2006)

Author: Alex L. Goldfayn
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Summary:

Distraught and scrambling off the United Airlines plane, the man ran out of the jet bridge past passengers waiting to get on board, clutching his laptop. Smoke poured from it.

He ran to a relatively unoccupied area of the gate and threw the Lenovo computer on the ground.

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Batteries On a Plane: ; What Would Happen If a Laptop Caught Fire in Flight?

It ignited, shooting a 2-foot flame upward.

"A few people yelled 'terrorist,' and ran away," said Tom Mustaine, 30, who was sitting at an adjoining gate and witnessed the event at Los Angeles International Airport.

"The thing gave off a terrib...



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