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
I thought it was Wolverine’s daughter.
This will happen if you reverse polarity and wear the left earpiece in the right ear and vice-versa.
(Just kidding.)
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.
Put another Shelia on the barbie…mate
“Can you hear me – OW!”
Too much Metallica… Seek & Destroy?
“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?
When I mail a package at the post office they always ask if it contains lithium batteries. Now I know why.
Duz this jsut happen on flites to Aurstralia?
Or cud it happen to … sey ….. new Zeelan?
Made in China “generic” crap
She’s lucky the batteries were in her sex toy.
weren’t