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iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane

Posted by timothy on from the shield-your-iballs dept.

First time accepted submitter thegreymonkey writes "Last Friday, an iPhone caught fire on flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney. This incident is under investigation from Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). This accident might be related to the iPhone battery again." Whether it "caught fire" may be a matter of semantics; as reported in the above linked story and by Network World (hat tip to reader alphadogg), though, the iPhone "started glowing red and emitting dense smoke."

2 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Car DVD PLayer by omglolbah · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sounds like hardware with inadequate fusing.
    Any power adapter should be able to survive a complete short on the output if it is designed properly.

  2. Re:From XKCD to life?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Water is the correct response to a lithium ion powered consumer device fire, as shown in this FAA-video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6KA_Si-m8

    The purpose of the water is to cool down the batteries to prevent thermal run-away.