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Key Safety Issues

Lithium Batteries

Lithium battery issues include those related to the safe carriage of all types of lithium batteries as cargo on passenger and freighter aircraft, inside checked passenger baggage and among passengers’ carry-on effects.

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Cabin Safety, Lithium Batteries, 2016 FSF Press Releases

Flight Safety Foundation Publishes Flight Crew Guidance on Lithium Battery Overheating

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Flight Safety Foundation has published on its website basic guidance on how…

by Frank Jackman

News, Lithium Batteries, Dangerous Goods

U.S., Canada Ban Galaxy Note7 from Air Transport

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an emergency order banning all Samsung Galaxy Note7…

by Frank Jackman

News, Lithium Batteries, Dangerous Goods

Galaxy Note7 Cell Phone Recall

Samsung is recalling some of its Galaxy Note7 smartphones because of instances in which the…

by Linda Werfelman

Blog, Lithium Batteries, Cargo Safety

Finding Hazards You Cannot See But Know are There

Handling passengers and their luggage at today’s volumes can be challenging enough.  But the cargo…

by Mark Millam

Lithium Batteries, Safety Briefs

Safety News | September 2016

Penalties Urged for Rogue Battery Shippers Organizations representing airlines and lithium battery suppliers are calling…

by Linda Werfelman

Lithium Batteries, Editorial Page

Clamp Down

Risk mitigation is necessarily a cooperative activity. It takes stakeholders from across the aviation industry…

by Frank Jackman

News, Lithium Batteries, Smoke Fire Fumes

Qantas Crew Praised for Dealing with Smoking Mobile Phone

A mobile phone that started emitting smoke when trapped under a business class seat on…

by Australian Aviation

Lithium Batteries, AirMail

Lithium Battery Shipments

First, it has taken much too long for the International Civil Aviation Organization to accept…

by Alan Gurevich

Lithium Batteries, Dangerous Goods, Editorial Page

Battery Ban

As we were finishing this issue of AeroSafety World, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)…

by Frank Jackman | Editor-in-Chief

Lithium Batteries, 2016 FSF Press Releases

FSF Statement on Interim Lithium Ion Battery Ban

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Flight Safety Foundation supports the decision of the International Civil Aviation Organization…

by Flight Safety Foundation

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