Re: I despise the security theatre...
It's fundamentally bollocks, and makes flying more dangerous.
Crushing a lithium ion battery usually makes it catch fire - and it doesn't matter whether or not it's inside a device.
- Just ask any airline what to do if you drop your phone into the seat. There have already been a few fires from phones being crushed by seats moving. Now make the battery an order of magnitude bigger, stack a load of weights on top at random, and bounce it around.
The existing ban will cause fires. The only question is how often. Expanding it can only bring down more aircraft.
The worst part is that when a plane is diverted or brought down by a lithium ion fire in the hold, they will probably insist that it was a terrorist act and ruin the life (or reputation) of a victim, and the lives of that victim's family.
I'll be going via Canada.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
