Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia – IOTW Report

Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia

Sydney (AFP) – A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight.

The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on February 19 when there was a loud explosion.

“As I went to turn around I felt burning on my face,” she told the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) which investigated the incident.

“I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck. I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor.

“They were sparking and had small amounts of fire.”

Flight attendants rushed to help and poured a bucket of water on the headphones, but the battery and its cover had both melted and stuck to the floor.

Pictures show the woman, who was not named, with a blackened face and neck and blisters on her hands.

Fellow passengers had to endure the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and singed hair for the remainder of the flight.  MORE

12 Comments on Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia

  1. Probably a lithium ion cheap piece of crap
    that was discharged too fast. Just like that
    samsung phone model, I5 phones had a model also
    but it just expanded until the phone was
    useless.

  2. “Fellow passengers had to endure the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and singed hair for the remainder of the flight.”

    Dumb asses, why didn’t someone just open a window?

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