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New air flight safety rule on batteries.

  • 08-07-2014 11:45am
    #1
    aloyisious
    Registered Users Posts: 11,539 ✭✭✭✭


    There's a new rule banning power-empty batteries being carried inside phones and other electronic devices on to planes. I'm puzzled as to why "flat" batteries, as distinct from fully/partly charged batteries are seen as a risk, when the other batteries have power and seem (on the face of it) more capable of use for whatever.... The airlines/airport security are asking passengers to turn on their electronic devices to prove there is power in device batteries

    What (in layman terms) are the dangers posed by empty batteries?

    Some airlines have rules barring passengers from packing spare "full" batteries in stored luggage (leakage-risk), whilst allowing them in "carry-on" luggage.


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  • #2
    dutopia
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭dutopia


    I think it's that if a device doesn't turn on it could be used to hide a bomb within the battery compartment.


  • #3
    aloyisious
    Registered Users Posts: 11,539 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I was thinking about the bomb-in-the-device plot, but thought about how the advice is NOT to switch on devices that can send out a signal or electronic pulse to trigger a device and thought......... how odd.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,684 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's hard to know if there is anything behind this other than more security theatre.

    Certainly a laptop is big enough to contain an unpleasant amount of nastiness, but a phone ?

    And besides MacGyver would be spoilt for choice in Duty Free

    I can see lots of tears from flat batteries, and growing sales of portable chargers at airports.


    "One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns." -John Oliver


  • #5
    djpbarry
    Registered Users Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    And all someone has to do to circumvent these new measures is to fit a small, alternative power source in their laptop, next to the bomb, that provides just enough juice to power up for a few minutes.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,684 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    djpbarry wrote: »
    And all someone has to do to circumvent these new measures is to fit a small, alternative power source in their laptop, next to the bomb, that provides just enough juice to power up for a few minutes.
    You mean like the way that many corporate laptops can swap a battery in place of an optical drive ?


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