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.
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."
I heard on the news last night that the plugs were carrying Lithium Battery.
On long haul flights like this (US to Asia or Australia or back the other way) I like to put on headsets and listen to classical music to go to sleep to
The Doors: “Light My Fire”?
I’d really like to know what brand it is as well.
I use blue tooth Apatronics for all my outside stuff.