Battery Fires on Planes Spur New Proposals - WSJ - WSJ

Battery Fires on Planes Spur New Proposals - WSJ - WSJ



More doom and gloom concerning Lithium Batteries.  The ICAO changes arent a big deal, they just adopted the US standard, which we have been doing here for years.



The FAA studies are good and have given us a lot of insight on loading Lithium Batteries in unvented structural ULDs, This is big news, and good info to have.



The position doesn't really CALL for anything.  It indicated that gel packs or other mitigation options exist and have had some amount of effectiveness.



The problem which we need to focus on isn't the properly packaged and documented shipments of Lithium Batteries.  It is the huge amount of counterfeit, untested, undeclared, undocumented shipments of batteries that unscrupulous shippers will pass off as general cargo to get around all of the restrictions.  Lithium Batteries in mail that are shipped, unregulated.  Lithium Batteries tossed in Checked bags that get through screening.



These are the biggest threats to safety and little is being done to address that.