Posted on 03/15/2017 8:28:42 AM PDT by simpson96
MELBOURNE – A woman woke up to find her headphones on fire after falling asleep on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
The passenger, who officials didn’t identify, was listening to music and had drifted off about two hours into the flight when she heard a loud explosion. “As I went to turn around I felt a burning on my face,” she said. “I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck.”
The headphones kept sparking, she said.
“I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor,” the woman said. “As I went to stamp my foot on them the flight attendants were already there with a bucket of water to pour on them. They put them into the bucket at the rear of the plane.”
The battery, identified as the likely cause of the fire, and the cover, both melted and stuck to the floor of the plane, officials said.
Passengers were forced to breathe air tainted with the smell of burning hair and electronics for the rest of the flight. “People were coughing and choking the entire way home,” the woman said.
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Listening to AC/DC?
What brand/model of headphones was it?
What brand?
Beats?
I’ve wondered about the safety of those cheap Chinese bluetooth headsets.
Those batteries are a safety hazard, they can burn your house down.
Battery/short circuit/ audio amp failure.
Speakers and headphones (including earbuds) are designed to handle milliwatts of AC signal power, and have a low DC resistance.
Dumping the power of the Li-ion battery of a phone into them will make them light up like a lightbulb.
Think of a vape pen, except stuck in your ear.
Back in Black(face)? TNT? Dirty deeds Done to Me?
I use headphones with my ipad all the time. I don’t mind the plug in. To me its just easier to plug them in than it is to charge something else. I have chargeable speakers that I never use because its easier to just plug in my headphones.
Thunderstruck?
She didn’t feel like washing her face?
Headline: “explode”
Article: “on fire”
Which is it? Another headline that is designed to make us read the article, which then contradicts the headline.
Nice. At least they didn't pour it on her while it was on her head. "Would you like some shock therapy with your coffee?"
Also, had this been a smoking flight, the smell of electronics and hair would've been covered up.
The woman, whose identity has been concealed by the ATSB, said she was listening to music on a pair of battery-operated headphones when she fell asleep about two hours into the flight.So it was the battery source, not the headphones themselves, that exploded? It looks like from the photos that she had the power source near her face.She woke to a loud explosion.
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"The ATSB has assessed that it is the batteries, as the power source, that caught on fire and are therefore the issue... All batteries contain stored energy and are therefore potentially risky."
You would think that would be a question a journalist would ask.... but no... and all they manage to do is mention an unrelated product "The incident follows Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note7".
#2 That is funny!
I bet it was not the Carpenters.
Stewardess: "Ok, everyone, if you have cigarettes with you, LIGHT UP. That is an order from the Captain."
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