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An iPhone spontaneously combusts on an Australian Flight
Digital Trends ^
| 11-28-11
| By Mike Dunn
Posted on 11/29/2011 8:40:17 AM PST by rawhide
It sounds like there is yet another reason power off your cell phone on your next flight. Australian airline Regional Express issued a press release stating an incident involving an exploding iPhone. No one on the flight was harmed during the event that involved lots of smoke and a red glow.
Shortly after the regional flight from Lismore to Sydney landed, a passenger’s cell phone started “emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow.” The report states that the flight attendant extinguished the red glow successfully, which implies that the glow was actually a fire, but there is no note of an open flame. A picture of the phone has been included, and it is indeed an iPhone 4.
The phone pictured appears to not only have some fire damage, but also had some damage to the back glass. Now it’s not clear how much damage was caused by the combustion, or by the flight attendant extinguishing the phone. While there may be a list of problems users of the iPhone 4 have complained about, explosion is not on the list but this isn’t the first report of an Apple iDevice exploding.
The phone in question has been given to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for analysis.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: iphone
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:40:24 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Must have been using the iJack app...
2
posted on
11/29/2011 8:43:05 AM PST
by
null and void
(This is day 1042 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
To: rawhide
Was it a during the filming of the opening scene from “Mission Impossible”?
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:43:46 AM PST
by
pwatson
To: rawhide
Considering how many millions of iPhone 4 devices have been sold, and that fact that many of those have flown - and this the first and only reported case; I’d treat this as a fluke. When you make millions of anything, a ‘one-off’ failure isn’t unexpected.
However, if there is a second similar failure, then we have a trend.
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:45:46 AM PST
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: rawhide
Modern lithium batteries have a rare but real tendency to do this. Which is why airlines don't like them to be in your check bags.
I heard of a case where a guy had a cellphone in his chest pocket and it blew. A part of the case went through his heart and killed him instantly.
5
posted on
11/29/2011 8:45:55 AM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: rawhide
While there may be a list of problems users of the iPhone 4 have complained about, explosion is not on the list but this isn’t the first report of an Apple iDevice exploding. 1... This isn't a report of an iDevice "exploding" at all.
2... Somebody reported an "exploding" device, but didn't "complain" about it? WTF?
6
posted on
11/29/2011 8:46:08 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: rawhide
It was a Mossad cellphone for use on Muzzie terrorists that was a dud and subsequently sold on Ebay!
7
posted on
11/29/2011 8:46:13 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: rawhide
InfernoPHONE
8
posted on
11/29/2011 8:47:14 AM PST
by
moovova
(Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
To: Hodar
It isn’t about iphones. Any modern cellphone can do this if the battery is defective. Laptops have done this too.
9
posted on
11/29/2011 8:47:14 AM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: rawhide
Does the iPhone 4 have Firewire?
10
posted on
11/29/2011 8:47:59 AM PST
by
null and void
(This is day 1043 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
To: null and void
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:51:04 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: TalonDJ
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:51:46 AM PST
by
B Knotts
(Just another Tenther)
To: TalonDJ
lithium batteries have a rare but real tendency to do this. Huh?
If it's "rare" then it's not a "tendency", is it?
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:54:09 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: rawhide
That incoming call must have been a hot one!
14
posted on
11/29/2011 8:54:25 AM PST
by
NCjim
(Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
To: rawhide
This is where form over function is going to hammer them one more time.
You could issue a battery recall, like Blackberry and others have done, and you are done.
Not with the iPhone. The phone has a sealed battery compartment.
Think Apple might make the same mistakes with the iPhone that they did with the Mac?
Looking that way. iPhones were outsold for the first time last month by an Android device (Samsung, I think).
We’ll see I guess. Apple is such a source of frustration for me. Home of the ‘almost perfect’ device. They always have fatal flaws, and it almost always comes down to some ‘brand control’ decision from the top.
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posted on
11/29/2011 8:58:49 AM PST
by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: rawhide
Ha....must have been watching porn....
16
posted on
11/29/2011 9:08:03 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(Cain....100% American, 100% Black and 100% for the Constitution...999 an added benefit.)
To: rawhide
Since the phone wasn’t flaming we know what it isn’t!
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posted on
11/29/2011 9:08:20 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
11/29/2011 10:23:11 AM PST
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
To: rawhide; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ...
Apple iPhone4 catches fire on Australian flight—PING!
Apple iPhone Ping!
Please, No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
11/29/2011 11:47:51 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
To: rawhide
Liar, liar, pants on f... Never mind.
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posted on
11/29/2011 11:50:22 AM PST
by
DTxAg
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