Lithium batteries banned on flights A UN panel has approved a temporary ban on cargo shipments of rechargeable Lithium batteries on passenger planes because they can create intense fires capable of destroying an aircraft. The decision by the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organisation’s top-level governing council isn’t binding, but most countries follow the agency’s standards. The ban is effective on April 1. “This interim prohibition will continue to be in force as separate work continues through ICAO on a new Lithium battery packaging performance standard, currently expected by 2018,” said Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, the ICAO council’s president. In 2013, UAE civil aviation investigators said the crash of a United Parcel Service (UPS) cargo plane in Dubai three years earlier was caused by a fast-moving fire that began in cargo containing Lithium batteries. The jet crashed on September 3, 2010, after the cockpit filled with *****. Both pilots were killed. Lithium-ion batteries are used in a vast array of products from cellphones and laptops to some electric cars. About 5.4 billion lithium-ion cells were manufactured worldwide in 2014. A battery is made up of two or more cells. A majority of batteries are transported on cargo ships, but about 30 per cent are shipped by air. PRBA – The Rechargeable Battery Association, which opposed the ban, said in a statement that the industry is preparing to comply with the ban, but there may be “significant disruption in the logistics supply chain”, especially for batteries used in medical devices. Aviation authorities have long k**wn that the batteries can self-ignite, creating fires that are hotter than 1,100C. That’s near the melting point of aluminium, which is used in aircraft construction. Three cargo jets have been destroyed and four pilots killed in in-flight fires since 2006 that accident investigators say were either started by batteries or made more severe by their proximity. [email protected]
02-25-2016, 08:09 AM
Lithium batteries banned on flights
A UN panel has approved a temporary ban on cargo shipments of rechargeable Lithium batteries on passenger planes because they can create intense fires capable of destroying an aircraft. The decision by the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organisation’s top-level governing council isn’t binding, but most countries follow the agency’s standards. The ban is effective on April 1. “This interim prohibition will continue to be in force as separate work continues through ICAO on a new Lithium battery packaging performance standard, currently expected by 2018,” said Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, the ICAO council’s president. In 2013, UAE civil aviation investigators said the crash of a United Parcel Service (UPS) cargo plane in Dubai three years earlier was caused by a fast-moving fire that began in cargo containing Lithium batteries. The jet crashed on September 3, 2010, after the cockpit filled with *****. Both pilots were killed. Lithium-ion batteries are used in a vast array of products from cellphones and laptops to some electric cars. About 5.4 billion lithium-ion cells were manufactured worldwide in 2014. A battery is made up of two or more cells. A majority of batteries are transported on cargo ships, but about 30 per cent are shipped by air. PRBA – The Rechargeable Battery Association, which opposed the ban, said in a statement that the industry is preparing to comply with the ban, but there may be “significant disruption in the logistics supply chain”, especially for batteries used in medical devices. Aviation authorities have long k**wn that the batteries can self-ignite, creating fires that are hotter than 1,100C. That’s near the melting point of aluminium, which is used in aircraft construction. Three cargo jets have been destroyed and four pilots killed in in-flight fires since 2006 that accident investigators say were either started by batteries or made more severe by their proximity. [email protected]
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