Re: Re. KABOOM
"Is it just me, or does this have a lot to do with E-cigarettes taking away a lot of the business of Mar*bo*ro, Be*s*n & H*dg*s, etc? Sounds like someone did some lobbying."
I suspect it has rather more to do with multi-million dollar assets smoking on assorted runways, taxiways and hardstandings around the world's airports than lobbying by tobacco companies.
Regardless of you being able to replicate it or not, these things can and do burn. This new regulation is intended to reduce the chances of it happening while an airframe full of self-loading cargo is out of reach of emergency support, not to protect the pockets of cigarette manufacturers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
