Safety
Lithium Fires Generate Myths and Misinformation
What is the truth about lithium-ion battery fires?
Combustion of an iPhone during a flight was eventually linked to a damaged battery (caused by improper repair) leading to a short circuit.
Combustion of an iPhone during a flight was eventually linked to a damaged battery (caused by improper repair) leading to a short circuit.

Sometime in 2011 (we can’t be sure when), an airport worker hooked up an energized ground-power unit to a Cessna Citation CJ4 (525C), according to the FAA. The CJ4 was the first business jet certified with a lithium-ion main-ship battery. For whatever reason, after the ground-power unit was hooked up to the CJ4, something happened, and the result was, the FAA wrote, “a report of a battery fire.”


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