If it isn't Samsung Galaxy Note 7, then there is an external battery that catches fire in an airplane, and today we are talking about an incident that took place at the Volvograd airport in Russia. In the video clip below you can see the fire generated by an external battery that caught fire when the plane was already landing at the airport in Volvograd and the passengers were starting to leave it.
The entire plane was filled with toxic smoke generated by the burning of the external battery and the carpet under it, the flames seeming to be quite large before being extinguished by the crew. The battery probably caught fire while it was being used by a passenger to charge his phone, and the incident reminds us of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and its explosions.
The representatives of the airline say that there were no victims as a result of this incident and that everyone calmly left the aircraft after it had landed at the airport in Volvograd. The good part in this story is that the external battery did not explode during the flight, because otherwise panic would have set in and things would not have been as simple.
Despite this, the incident brings back to the discussion the dangers that batteries have, whether they are for mobile phones, or for the external batteries used to charge them. No matter where they are put, external batteries can cause very big problems, and if the incident had happened in flight, there could have been a risk of it being turned off the road, or making an emergency landing.
"As passengers were disembarking following a routine landing, a portable power bank belonging to one of the passengers began emitting white smoke. The smoke was immediately put out by the cabin crew, and all passengers calmly disembarked as normal using regular air stairs. There were no injuries."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ZldSOAlOk
