Exploding flashlight batteries shut down LAX

magic79 · Nov 13, 2006

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but I just heard it on the news.

Apparently Los Angeles International Airport was shut down for some time on Saturday, in part due to batteries in a flashlight exploding while the bag was being inspected:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131476,00.html

I hope this doesn't have any ramifications to bringing flashlights with batteries on flights. This bag had been checked and was being inspected by TSA.

Brighteyez · Nov 13, 2006

I guess we'll have to find out which C sized batteries have an inherent tendency to blow up plastic flashlights

Size15's · Nov 13, 2006

Perhaps it would be a good idea to check when that article was published?
(Saturday, September 04, 2004)
We had thread(s) on it at the time.

Exploding flashlight batteries shut down LAX

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