Apple Sued In EgyptAir Crash Ping!
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Posted on 05/14/2018 5:22:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 into the Mediterranean Sea that killed 66 people was caused by a hot Apple product ... according to a new suit.
The families of several of the victims of the May 19, 2016 crash claim the tragedy was due to the co-pilot's iPhone 6S or iPad mini overheating in the cockpit and catching fire.
According to the docs ... an investigation revealed the device ignited and led to a bigger fire in the cockpit, which ultimately took the plane down.
It should be noted, however -- some industry experts have questioned this phone theory ... and believe the fire on the plane started beneath the cockpit in the avionics bay due to a short circuit or some kind of explosion.
Still, the families believe there's enough evidence to hold Apple responsible for the deaths of their loved ones ... so they're suing for damages. The airline is also listed on the suit.
We reached out to Apple and EgyptAir ... so far, no word back
It doesn’t matter if it was caused by an Apple product. All they need is the right jury.
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didn’t headlines this week claim that it was suicide from a pilot contracting sudden jihad syndrome?
...evidently concluding it is a phoney theory.
The sharks are circling. They must smell money!
It would behoove Apple to pay for a conclusive examination of the avionics’ remains.
Different airline, different flight. MH370 versus EgyptAir.
I can't find what jurisdiction the suit was filed in. The plane took off in France, the plane was an Airbus owned by an Egyptian airline, flying in international airspace and crashed in international waters, flying to Egypt. Who has jurisdiction? Will it even be decided by a jury or by an Islamic Imam tribunal in Egypt? Who knows?
Happened to my boss’s car. The phone China syndromed in the passenger seat while charging. Totaled his car.
Good grief
Kaboom. I saw newer battery designs on a PBS show recently that are very thin, can be cut while powering a iPad and not short out.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-explosion-las-vegas/
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/09/technology/apple-iphone-battery-burning-smoke/index.html
It must have been a short in the electronics ... just like Flight 800.
My Mom’s hairdresser too. Gutted their home.
“didn’t headlines this week claim that it was suicide from a pilot contracting sudden jihad syndrome?”
Apple has much deeper pockets than Sharia.
That iPhone 6s was in to a 3rd party service shop for repair due to an old, failing battery. The tech had removed a cracked screen and was testing the old battery, also a previous 3rd party replacement as I understand it, when it exploded. The standard accepted failure rate on lithium ion batteries is one in 8 million. . . Although usually they fail not quite so spectacularly as this one.
From another article.
“Also unclear is how the plaintiffs plan to establish that the iPhone or iPad caused the crash, or how they may determine that the copilot's device was responsible.A published investigation in early 2017 laid out the circumstantial case that a copilot had placed his iPhone and tablet on a glare-shield in the cockpit, as seen on CCTV cameras.
Experts pushed back on that theory. David Learmount, a former pilot and operations and safety editor at Flight International magazine, told The Daily Telegraph in 2017 that the theory was a "red herring," and far from the most plausible explanation.
"A phone bursting into flames just below the windscreen is a fairly spectacular thing to take place on a flight, and they would have told somebody on the ground. Nobody has mentioned this," Learmount said. "The key point is while there were warnings about the window heating systems, there were also smoke alarms in the toilet and avionics bay under the floor. How would the fire have got under there? It doesn't make sense."
The pilots were in contact with air traffic control and the cockpit voice data recorder and the flight data recorder were both recovered. The CVDR showed the crew never saying anything about either of the Apple devices which apparent had been placed in plain sight bursting into flames while they were trying to handle the emergency and failing to due so. Instead they talked about smoke detectors going off in the Avionics bay below them and in the toilet. Not a thing was said about seeing what would have been an obvious smoke/fire source in front of them, had it occurred. Nobody on the flight crew shouted to "grab a fire extinguisher, the iPhone/ipad/device is burning!"
This lawsuit is built on supposition and innuendo based on the fact that SAMSUNG DEVICES were known to have burst into flames on airplanes several times in this time frame, that two Apple devices were in the cockpit (oh, my!), so Apple devices and Samsung devices are in some way equivalent, so therefore the cause of the crash must be that one of them, can’t say which, spontaneously exploded into flames! We didn’t see it, but Apple has deep pockets and Samsung devices (ooooh, devices!) were banned from even being in carryon luggage!
This, of course, ignores the fact that iPads are standard issue equipment for airline pilots as their modern "flight bag" for their check lists, Airport maps, and charts! In a crunch, an iPhone runs the same software.
Yikes. And it is an intense heat too. Maybe because the lithium in the battery.
I forgot how to post pictures here but if you want to see the car, I have some pictures.
Or better - the families see Apple has deep pockets, so they are trying to grub every $$$ they can.
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