icao study | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:53:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Should Lithium Battery Transport be banned on Passenger jets? https://airflightdisaster.com/should-lithium-battery-transport-be-banned-on-passenger-jets/ Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:11:46 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=27357 The conversation about forbidding the transport of lithium metal batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft is based on fire risk these batteries present. Current fire control systems cannot suppress lithium metal battery fires, but the fears are that banning the transport will result in driving the shipment “underground.” What do you think should be done?...

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