FAA warns about e-cigs and fire risks...

Didn't see another thread about this, but this can hurt us a lot if airlines start banning them...


FAA warns U.S. airlines about e-cigarette risk - CBS News

FAA warns U.S. airlines about e-cigarette risk

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• e-cigarettesparked a fire in a piece of luggage in a baggage area. Four months prior to that at Boston's Logan Airport, an e-cigarette in a passenger's bag caught fire in the cargo hold of a plane -- forcing an evacuation.
  
  
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  Those incidents and others have prompted the FAA to issue an official warning to U.S. carriers. The agency says the popular tobacco alternative "can pose a fire hazard in the cargo compartment of planes."
  Fires can spread when lithium ion batteries ignite.The FAA has already cracked down on those but e-cigarettes are powered by the same technology: Lithium cells.
  
  The concern is that e-cigarettes could inadvertently turn on in checked luggage, igniting a fire that could be catastrophic in mid-flight.
  

 

My guess is that it must have the atomizer on the device, just by undoing the atomizer its alrdy alot safer...

 

I saw it in Danish television yesterday, and it said there that e-cigarettes should be in your hand luggage instead of in the checked one. If so, you can still bring it. That said, I would also suggest to take the barreries out of the gear before transportation, and if that is not possible, remove the atomizer from the nod or ego. Maybe someone forgot to lock the battery with the 5 or 3 click ?

 

Funny we never hear about rechargable shavers catching fire. My shaver have a litium battery in it, so it should be just as dangerous. They dont write how many millions af the e cigs there are transported on airplanes daily. This is again a move from the big tobacco gansters and there followers to make the e cig look bad!!!

 

Yea, but not mine, because that is still running like a champ. I use every day, so maybe i am one of the lucky ones!

 

Is a mech or regulated mod whiteout battery considered an e-cig?

As SD mentioned, it's better to carry mods in the checked luggage whiteout battery's and mods with build in battery's in the checked luggage.For Clouper deceives it's best to store them in fire proved carry bags anyhow.

You are right one that one and thinking about other devices as well which are not powered off or able to remove battery's in the checked luggages.

 

Just another scaremongering againt e cigs..

 

Because your shaver isn't attached to a heating element.

In this case no. It's a legitimate concern. Note the last line of the article:
"The FAA is not banning e-cigs on planes outright. It just wants passengers to carry them onto the plane so that they can be monitored".

 

again, is a mod whiteout a battery concerned as an e-cigarette?

 

Has this been made a rule already?