Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
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Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
January 23–As the popularity of e-cigarettes increases, the FAA wants airlines to ensure passengers don’t put their e-cigarettes in checked baggage, when they can pose a fire hazard in the cargo compartment.
The FAA today released a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) making U.S. air carriers aware of a recent bulletin from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that described several incidents associated with e-cigarettes, as well as ICAO’s recommendation to ban the devices in checked baggage. ICAO is the arm of the United Nations that develops and disseminates suggested standards for the international aviation community.
In several incidents both inside and outside the transportation industry, e-cigarettes have overheated or caught fire when the heating element was accidentally activated. Last August, an e-cigarette in checked baggage stowed in an airliner’s cargo hold caused a fire that forced an evacuation of the aircraft. The danger may be increased when users modify and rebuild their reusable e-cigarette devices and interchange original and aftermarket batteries, heating elements, and vaporizing components.
The FAA SAFO recommends that operators follow the ICAO bulletin and require passengers to carry e-cigarettes and related devices solely in the aircraft cabin, where overheating or fire can be observed and handled more quickly. The agency encourages airlines to communicate this new policy to passengers as widely as possible through their websites, press releases, at ticket purchase, during the check-in process and by other established means to inform passengers about hazardous materials regulations and policies.
The FAA today released a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) making U.S. air carriers aware of a recent bulletin from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that described several incidents associated with e-cigarettes, as well as ICAO’s recommendation to ban the devices in checked baggage. ICAO is the arm of the United Nations that develops and disseminates suggested standards for the international aviation community.
In several incidents both inside and outside the transportation industry, e-cigarettes have overheated or caught fire when the heating element was accidentally activated. Last August, an e-cigarette in checked baggage stowed in an airliner’s cargo hold caused a fire that forced an evacuation of the aircraft. The danger may be increased when users modify and rebuild their reusable e-cigarette devices and interchange original and aftermarket batteries, heating elements, and vaporizing components.
The FAA SAFO recommends that operators follow the ICAO bulletin and require passengers to carry e-cigarettes and related devices solely in the aircraft cabin, where overheating or fire can be observed and handled more quickly. The agency encourages airlines to communicate this new policy to passengers as widely as possible through their websites, press releases, at ticket purchase, during the check-in process and by other established means to inform passengers about hazardous materials regulations and policies.
Re: Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
Or better: Ecigs can be a hazard to your health.Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
How aren't these things hazardous goods? Some things were never meant to fly. If they're not safe in the hold, they're not safe in the cabin either! Just 'cause you can detect and extinguish a fire in the cabin, does not mean you should have to!
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Re: Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
Well, hopefully it would be noticed long before a fire actually developed. No chance of that in a cargo hold.
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We still see lots of passengers that believe they can use them on-board the aircraft, that or they try to use them in the lav.
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Re: Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
PilotDAR wrote:Or better: Ecigs can be a hazard to your health.Ecigs in checked baggage can be a hazard to your health.
What's hazardous about flavor nicotine and glycol (used in inhalers)?
And the only reason these started fires was from sheer stupidity, you can either remove the battery on most devices or use the lock function so that they can't fire.