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Now imagine this happening in the overhead bin of a plane.

• TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  Or in the cargo hold.
  • anamax 5y ago
    In the US at least, laptops with LI-ion batteries are not supposed to be in the cargo hold. I don't know whether the checked-luggage scanners catch this or what happens if they find a laptop in luggage. The passenger isn't present during checked luggage scanning so it would be complicated to try to give the laptop to the passenger. The obvious alternatives look like theft and are extremely inconvenient. (Oh joy, I'm at my destination and my laptop isn't.)
    • GekkePrutser 5y ago
      Same in Europe. No idea what they do either. I've only put a laptop in my checked luggage once, in 2000 when it was still permitted. It was one with NiMH cells by the way which don't have a tendency to catch fire but they suck in other ways (energy density, memory effect). That's why nobody uses them anymore. It arrived with a cracked screen so never again...