FAA: Keep PEDs Out of Checked Baggage
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says new tests have shown that a personal electronic device (PED) packed in a suitcase could, under certain conditions, be subject to a thermal runaway and fire that might “exceed the capabilities of the airplane to cope with it.”
As a result, the FAA reiterated its call for PEDs to be transported in carry-on baggage rather than in checked baggage in the cargo compartment of a passenger airplane, where crewmembers would be unable to detect and extinguish a fire.
The FAA made its conclusions public in late July, around the same time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ended its ban on laptops and other large PEDs in the cabins of airplanes flying to the United States from 10 airports in…
