Airplanes should carry a bucket of sand to extinguish lithium battery fires

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Jmauld@reddit

Or provide reliable charging ports and then I wouldn’t have to bring a battery pack.

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decker_42@reddit

Or, change your phone before you get on the plane and bring a book for the flight?

Jesus christ, you're a hairless monkey who's flying through the air at hundreds of miles per hour - take some responsibility for your own shit.

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I think most people would like to be able to use their phone on the airplane and still have some charge to use it after they get to their destination. And there's a ton of stuff that you have to use your phone to do both before and after the flight. So it's not just that everyone but you is an idiot; there's a good reason to want to charge your phone on the plane.

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decker_42@reddit

Ah, just to be clear, at no point did I state that everyone is an idiot.

My sin is being quick to judge, and after one comment I have, however, formed an opinion of your good self, sir.

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antonio16309@reddit

You're clearly well qualified to do so.

Have a nice day!

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decker_42@reddit

Yes, I have known many idiots.

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Jmauld@reddit

People of like minds typically find each other

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Jmauld@reddit

I work on the plane, which affords me for family tie when I’m not stuck in a 2’ x 3’ prison cell.

You do you.

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Colonol-Panic@reddit

As opposed to the lithium fire extinguishing products they already carry?

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flopsyplum@reddit (OP)

What are these “lithium fire extinguishing” products?

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antonio16309@reddit

Damn, OP really thought they were the first to think of this, before the ENTIRE airline industry.

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Colonol-Panic@reddit

Halon 1211s, thermal containment burn bags, AVDs, F-500 Encapsulating units, fire blankets, etc…

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No_Tennis_4528@reddit

Certainly sounds cheeper. I bet Boeing could engineer a supperior sand bucket, however.

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Technogamism@reddit

Nasa can design a sand bucket for $3 Billion!

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BaitmasterG@reddit

A Boeing bucket would be good, the sides would fall off delivering the sand quickly to the heart of the fire

Unless they designed it to, in which case the mechanism would stick

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GaryTurbo@reddit

I always fill my pockets with sand when going on a flight just in case.

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Technogamism@reddit

I think it would be more practical to just have small openings along the floor so any burning object could be kicked out. Similar to ships having openings so water that flush onto the deck can runoff back into the ocean.

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jason-murawski@reddit

The plane is pressurized. You can't have holes in it if you also want to breathe

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reddituseronebillion@reddit

Airlock might do the trick, doesn't have to complicated.

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jason-murawski@reddit

And if that fails? Now you have a lithium fire in a potentially inaccessible void space that's threatening the pressure vessel. The current solution is tbe safest option

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reddituseronebillion@reddit

What is the current solution? I actually have no idea.

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jason-murawski@reddit

They have different ways of containing a fire. Fireproof bags and certain chemicals to put the fire out mainly

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reddituseronebillion@reddit

Well if those actually work, then yah, way better option.

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Proton_Energy_Pill@reddit

I never had that problem in any of my flights but I decided that the steward nearest the battery should put on the oven gloves and throw it into the oven. Should be fairly safe there. Or a container of water if that works better.

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Fornicatinzebra@reddit

Water makes lithium explode violently, never use water for a lithium fire

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Disastrous-Wall-6943@reddit

They've got special gloves and a containment bag just for this occasion.

Easier and cheaper to replace than an oven.

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Proton_Energy_Pill@reddit

Thanks - I haven't flown an airliner for over 15 years now, it makes sense that they've got the gear to handle such fires these days.

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Disastrous-Wall-6943@reddit

No worries man.

These are the ones we use at my airline. They are sized for up to laptop kind of devices.

Put the device in it, toss in a couple liters of water and let it work itself out. Top up with water as needed. I haven't got to actually use one yet but the rep we had demonstrated it and they worked really well.

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