A really good article on the Dangers of Lithium batteries from Flying Typers Air Cargo News.
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The exhaustive report released late last month by The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of how a consignment of on fire, runaway lithium ion batteries brought down a UPS B747 Freighter over Dubai in 2010 , has not gone unanswered by the big cargo carrier.
FlyingTypers learned that UPS has ordered 1,821 fire resistant containers capable of containing a fire with temperatures as high as 1,200F for more than 4 hours. ...
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