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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by tim333 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:41AM (#14314415)
Looking at a youtube video of a laptop battery fire https://youtu.be/pizFsY0yjss?t=3m15s

I find it hard to see that taking out the metal box http://www.eyeno.net/2007/07/15/american-airlines-paul-bunya...

and then the plane.

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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by dom0 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:00AM (#14314482)
These boxes are probably aluminium, which should be ignitable by another metal-fire.
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