Re: Lithium ion batteries banned from passenger aircraft holds
If those boxes will withstand the worst case failure of those batteries and the plane can fly on without them, then the risk of a battery fire goes from "May down aircraft" to "Occasionally have to replace burnt out battery".
You can of course take the same approach wrt to shipping lithium batteries. Put them in a container that will safely withstand a worst case failure and the worst thing that can happen is after removing the container from the aircraft, its contents burst into flame when the container is opened.
Of course the reason Boeing didn't do that in the first place is because such containers are heavy and the same applies to the reason this isn't being done when shipping batteries
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