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33 incidents in what, 5-10 million flights?

• roywiggins 10y ago
  incidents of accidental fire, which can be put out if it happens in the cabin, but can't if they're in the cargo hold I guess the theory is that a laptop bomb in the cargo hold is less likely to be near a structurally important part of the plane, whereas if you have a laptop bomb in the cabin with you, you can shove it right up against a window...
  • valuearb 10y ago
    if twenty people use laptops to get 3 hours of work done on a flight, at $100/hour that's $6B in lost work every million flights. Sounds like a lot to pay to slightly reduce the risk of a plane being blown up. And increase the chance of a cargo hold fire much more significantly.
  • heisenbit 10y ago
    Right. We have a challenge to handle it in the cabin. For safety reasons we put these things into the hold where we can't handle them at all. Makes perfect sense. Any why only over the Atlantic and not Pacific? What about the routes to Australia?