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Re:Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone m... by rsynnott on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:23PM (#43527303)
> I can't imagine there were actually widespread battery fires for as long as I remember never having heard not to put a battery in checked luggage

This was pretty much the initiating incident, 15 years ago now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

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Re:Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone m... by rcxdude on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:01PM (#43529114)
This. The rules got tightened right up when this happened, because regulators basically looked at it and went 'holy shit, what if that had been a passenger aircraft?'
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