Serious Pics Ang Moh turned into Nigger mid flight when headphone exploded on face + hair

Not smart phone but headphone. I think a bluetooth stereo.

http://news.sky.com/story/exploding...woman-on-beijing-to-melbourne-flight-10802535









Exploding headphones injure sleeping woman on Beijing to Melbourne flight

Authorities say passengers "endured the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and burnt hair" for the rest of the journey.

13:16, UK, Wednesday 15 March 2017
The passenger said the headphones 'were sparking and had small amounts of fire'
Image Caption: The passenger said the headphones 'were sparking and had small amounts of fire'

A woman has spoken of her horror after her battery-powered headphones exploded on her face as she slept during a flight.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a warning after the incident on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne, which left the woman with burns to her face and hands.

The passenger, who has not been named, said she fell asleep two hours into the flight, only to be woken when the headphones exploded.

She said: "As I went to turn around I felt burning on my face. I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck.
The passenger said the headphones 'were sparking and had small amounts of fire'
Image Caption: The battery and its cover both melted and stuck to the floor near the woman

"I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor.

"They were sparking and had small amounts of fire."

Flight attendants poured water on the headphones and placed them in a bucket at the back of the plane.

However, the battery and its cover had both melted and stuck to the floor near the woman.

The ATSB said fellow passengers "endured the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and burnt hair" for the remainder of the flight.
The passenger said the headphones 'were sparking and had small amounts of fire'
Image Caption: The fire left the passenger with blisters on her hands

The woman, who was pictured with a blackened face and neck and blisters on her hands, added: "People were coughing and choking the entire way home".

The ATSB said the headphone battery "likely caught fire", adding: "As the range of products using batteries grows, the potential for in-flight issues increases."

A spokesperson for the authority said it was the first report of headphones catching fire in Australia, but there have been a number of other phone and device battery incidents.

Last year, a flight due to leave Sydney had to be evacuated when smoke was seen coming from a passenger's hand luggage. It was later found that lithium batteries had caught fire.

In the UK, a train was evacuated and several people were injured when a workman's drill overheated and sparked a fire last month.

got video:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...jing-to-melbourne-flight-20170314-guy6va.html

Safety warning after passenger's headphones explode on Beijing to Melbourne flight
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An airline passenger has spoken of her horror when her battery-operated headphones exploded on her face mid-flight.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a warning after the woman, travelling from Beijing to Melbourne on February 19, was left with a burnt face, hand and burnt hair.
Headphone battery explosion mid-flight

A passenger woke to find her headphones on fire and burning her neck on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne.

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.

She woke to a loud explosion.
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"As I went to turn around I felt burning on my face," she said.

"I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck.

"I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor. They were sparking and had small amounts of fire."

Flight attendants quickly poured a bucket of water on the headphones but the battery and cover were melted and stuck to the floor of the aircraft.

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The woman was badly burnt when her headphones exploded on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne.
The woman was badly burnt when her headphones exploded on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne. Photos: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

Photos show her hair and eyebrows singed and filled with black soot.

For the remainder of the flight, passengers endured the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and burnt hair.

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The woman's hand was also burnt.
The woman's hand was also burnt. Photo: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

"People were coughing and choking the entire way home," the passenger said.

A spokesman for the ATSB declined to reveal the brand of the headphones, saying all batteries are potentially risky.

"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."

In its safety warning, the ATSB said the potential for in-flight issues is increasing as the range of products using batteries grows.

Battery-powered devices should be stowed when not in use and spare batteries must be kept in carry-on baggage, not checked baggage, the warning said.

The incident follows several incidents of Samsung Galaxy phones and hoverboards exploding and being banned on planes.

Samsung recalled their Galaxy Note 7s due to faulty batteries that were catching fire.

In another incident, a phone battery caused a fire on a Qantas plane last year when the phone became stuck in a reclining chair and was crushed.

Lithium ion batteries, commonly used in phones and handheld electronics because they charge quickly and are compact, use highly flammable liquid that can explode if a battery short circuits.

Poorly constructed or older model lithium batteries are more likely to short circuit however tech website Gizmodo said over-heating and over-charging can also potentially cause an explosion in a 'perfect' battery.

The chance of your device exploding is "something like one in 10 million," Ken Boyce, from American safety consulting and certification company UL, told Gizmodo.

The Civil Aviation and Safety Authority has more information about travelling safely with batteries and portable power packs.

That video however a bit stupid because it mixed up again between smart phone and headphone, which are obviously different.





These are the ones that will give you a Nigger face when exploded. Yr ear and hair also be become Nigger Micheal Jackson style curly.

LOL. what brand headphone????

a case of when you go black you can't go back.

Was it part of the Samsung explosive collection?

Lithium may be combustible but it is the poorly designed products which are more dangerous. Just have to look at the Note 7 case where Samsung did not do enough testing & tried to squeeze a large battery into a confined space.

I'm surprised that the Australian authorities have kept quiet about the defective product leaving out important info about where the headphones were purchased, the brand & if it was a genuine or knock off

Such information may help others avoid a similar fate.

It must be one of these BT headphones

Must be knockoff bought in China.

mojito said:

Must be knockoff bought in China.

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These are the ones that will give you a Nigger face when exploded. Yr ear and hair also be become Nigger Micheal Jackson style curly.

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more likely a knockout :p