Airline introduces world-first hand luggage ban on popular travel gadget

AN hose has go the archetypal successful the satellite to prohibition powerfulness banks successful manus luggage aft a program caught occurrence connected the runway.

Air Busan confirmed that the gadget would beryllium banned for each passenger’s compartment bags.

The bulk of airlines already person power banks on their prohibited items database for immoderate checked luggage going into the hold.

However, astir inactive let them into the compartment depending connected their size.

The Korean hose introduced the caller regularisation this week following a occurrence onboard a formation on January 28 and said it was a "pre-emptive measure".

Passengers volition beryllium forced to support them connected their idiosyncratic astatine each times, oregon successful their underseat container but they volition beryllium told to region them from immoderate bags going into the overhead lockers.

All passengers and unit were safely evacuated from the Airbus 321 past month, aft a formation attendant spotted the fire.

However, the craft has since been burned beyond repair.

An investigation is underway arsenic to what caused the occurrence but it was thought to beryllium a power bank.

Lo Kok-keung, a retried engineering prof astatine Hong Kong Polytechnic University, told the South China Morning Post connected the dangers of powerfulness banks connected planes.

He said: “If it creates a abbreviated circuit it tin make a precocious somesthesia and pain the interior materials and make a occurrence which tin pain covering successful the baggage.”

Other airlines person not suggested they volition travel suit.

Some of the existent UK hose rules prohibition power banks successful checked luggage, arsenic good arsenic gadgets specified arsenic laptops and tablets.

For example, Ryanair says: "Customers tin transportation a maximum of 2 spare lithium ion batteries successful carry-on baggage and these indispensable beryllium individually protected to forestall abbreviated circuits."

Passengers are also warned not to effort and retrieve their phones if they suffer them down the broadside of the spot mid-flight.

In 2017, a man's telephone caught occurrence connected a United Airlines formation aft it fell betwixt the seats, followed by a Delta Airline incidental successful 2018 erstwhile it started smoking for a akin reason.

Patrick Smith, a erstwhile pilot, said: "If you're successful an electrically controlled lie-flat seat, of the benignant communal successful archetypal oregon business class, determination are a fig of nooks and crannies into which your telephone tin gaffe — beyond your scope and down into the mechanisms that power the seat's assorted positions.

"To debar this full scenario, debar leaving your telephone adjacent the borderline of the console, from wherever it tin easy gaffe oregon fall."

Passengers should ever alert formation unit if their telephone falls down the broadside of the seat.

Here are immoderate other items that are banned connected flights.

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