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Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk)
New submitter drunkdrone writes: "French authorities investigating the EgyptAir crash that killed 66 people last year believe that the plane may have been brought down by an overheating phone battery," reports International Business Times. Investigators say the fire that broke out on the Airbus A320 in May 2016 started in the spot where the co-pilot had stowed his iPad and iPhone 6S, which he placed on top of the instrument panel in the plane's cockpit. From the report: "EgyptAir flight MS804 was traveling from Paris to Cairo when it disappeared from radar on 19 May 2016. Egyptian investigators have speculated that the crash, which killed all 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel on board, was caused by an act of terrorism due to traces of explosives reported to be found on some the victims. Investigators in France have disputed these claims, saying that data recorded from the aircraft around the time it disappeared points to an accidental fire on the right-hand side of the flight deck, next to the co-pilot. According to The Times, CCTV pulled from cameras at Paris' Charles de Gualle airport show that the co-pilot stored a number of personal items above the dashboard, where the first signs of trouble were detected. This included an automated alert indicating a series of malfunctions on the right-hand flight deck window, followed by smoke alerts going off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane vanished."
A brilliant comedian.
Except that it's Samsung with the exploding batteries. But any chance to act like a shitknob and bash Apple because you lack any real intelligence or character, right?
How ignorant of history can you be? Plenty of laptops included the HCF instruction. No wonder you posted anonymously ...
Now on to more serious business - civil suits incoming - and it's not like you have the same standard of proof for civil liability as for criminal liability. With the extensive history of electronics catching fire, a jury will have no time believing that it's possible - it's just a question if it's more likely than not.
Apple PR: "We're being even more courageous - we're removing the battery, screen, cameras and microphones from our next smartphone. And don't worry about updates bricking it - it's a brick. We're calling it the iBrick. Taking the company in a whole new direction. And OUR innovation on the brick is - you guessed it - rounded corners!
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.