Power bank catches fire at Chiang Mai airport

[Nereus]

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Power bank catches fire at airport

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... at-airport

CHIANG MAI: A portable charge of a foreign traveller caught fire just before she entered the airport of the northern province. Her belongings were damaged but no one was hurt.

The management of the provincial airport on Thursday posted camera footage of the incident on its Facebook page Chiang Mai International Airport-CNX on Thursday.

The clip, with a Sunday afternoon timestamp, showed flames suddenly emerged from the lower part of the rucksack of the woman while she was walking in front of the airport's passenger terminal.

The shocked woman ran quickly to throw her bag on a frontal road.

A second later she pulled her bag from the road, apparently to save what remained of it. The power bank was left on the road and the flame disappeared.

The clip later showed a security guard standing near the burnt device to take a picture of it. Suddenly, it burst into flames again and quickly spun. The guard ran away as fast as he could.

Along with the post, the management of the airport wrote the clip showed why airport staff had to strictly enforce the portable charger ban on board.

[PeteC]

It is a given that they should be banned in checked luggage.

Of just as much concern is carry on. What if that purse had been in an overhead bin with other carry on bags and ignited. More than likely until the fire was discovered all the contents of that bin would have gone up and chances of an out of control situation, or close to out of control, would have occurred. Unless over an ocean the captain would probably have had to land the plane.

I would buy the power bank upon arrival and gift it to someone when departing, and simply charge my device in the seat socket onboard if I really needed to use it. More and more planes have these charger sockets now.