iPhone 4/4S 'self combusts' in airliner inferno An iPhone caused a small emergency in an Australian airplane after it inexplicably started to glow red and emit "significant amounts of dense smoke" as the craft touched down in Sydney airport. A flight attendant extinguished the phone immediately, reported the Regional Express Airline news service, and no passengers or crew …
Judging by the model number A1332 on the picture, it is an iPhone 4 and not a 4S so it could have been down to a dodgy batch of batteries from the battery supplier.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1332
I wonder if the batteries are made by the same company that made the infamous exploding Dell laptop batteries? I think that at the time it was Sony?
Cheers,
... is what almost certainly accounted for the UPS 747F that crashed in Dubai earlier in the year. It was carrying several tonnes of them, all brand new and in packaging designed for shipment.
No obvious reason for ignition but since they are self-oxidising neither depressurisation nor halon will put the fire out. You can't ship them discharged because then the battery will almost certainly never work again.
Tricky problem really...
http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2011/11/iphone-4-de-brasileira-pega-fogo-sozinho-no-meio-da-madrugada.html
Yes, it is in portuguese. Roughly, it says:
"IPhone of a brazilian woman gets on fire in the middle of the night."
It was an IPhone 4, and it was recharging.
Nuking electronics at Airports...
In the X-RAY scanners is never a god idea, especially if you know anything about how the guts of a IC are made (X-Ray Lithography) Duh!.......
So having your high value electronics kit be effectively hosed down at the atomic level is just asking for said kit to the develop whiskers(lead free solder [epic fail there] ) on the solder joints or breakdowns of insulation within either the batteries or high density IC's, which will lead to a full on short circuit and hi risk of a meltdown and fire.
sooner or later someones flight will crash due to a fire in the cabin or hold due to such a cause, then electronics gear wont be allowed to be irradiated or maybe even carried, unlike the passengers.
this time it was a close call, next time they might not be so lucky...
> In the X-RAY scanners is never a god idea, especially if you know anything
> about how the guts of a IC are made (X-Ray Lithography)
If you did know anything about how ICs are made, you'd know that's total cobblers.
> just asking for said kit to the develop whiskers
Nonsense. Whiskers are down to the crystalline nature of the solder, and are exacerbated by mechanical and thermal stresses. The amount of heating you'd get from an X-ray machine just doesn't feature.
> this time it was a close call
Perhaps it was. But your attempts at scare-mongering really don't help the discussion.
Vic.
If you look at the picture of the phone, you can clearly see that the phone has been modified. The apple logo has Jobs face in the bite... Nice try trolls. GL with your malware, volume turning off, devices stuck on same OS, and phones that will be outdated and wont be sold in 3 months.
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