The plane needs to be evacuated: Umgetauschtes Note 7 catches fire – CHIP Online

incidents on Board aircraft are particularly sensitive. The US-FAA FAA already had the 8. September says the operation of Note 7 devices on Board. The European aviation authority, EASA, followed a day later with a similar statement. After that, passengers and Crew members are allowed to your touch-7–equipment on Board, neither turn on nor charge. You may not be stowed in checked baggage.

Since then is drawn to the device on Board, specifically on the prohibition on the use of for the Samsung – no advertising for the group. Fire most cases, the there may be on Board an aircraft is one threat. Just batteries on Board, depending on the technology, controversial and sometimes viewed as a security risk.

The affected passenger of the evacuated pilot told the local station Wave 3, the crew asked all passengers with a grade 7 therefore, the devices

should be turned off. He did and the cell phone in his pants pocket. A few seconds later, he heard a Bang and smoke noticed. “It’s electronic smoke – a brown, green-grey, really ugly stuff – and it came out pretty tight from the device,” said the man. He threw the Smartphone on the floor, and it had burned through the carpet.

According to the US consumer protection authority to the CPSC by mid-September, were reported in the USA of 92 cases, in which a grade 7 was overheated.