Originally Posted by Blofeld:
“The more I think about it the more I think it may have been lithium batteries. You're not allowed to have any in hold baggage, but can take them in hand baggage, up to a certain amount, which escapes me now. If someone had gone through security with some in a cabin bag, which is not illegal as such batteries are used in laptops, phones, cameras, tablets, powerbanks etc, then that bag was taken off them at the gate for being too big then it would go in to the hold. The gate agents are meant to ask if there are lithium batteries inside, but it's not hard to imagine this either didn't happen or the passenger simply lied and said no.
As there is no further security check between the gate and the hold then these could have been loaded in to the hold and a fire started somehow, maybe by one of the batteries short circuiting by touching another one or a bit of metal. If that then caused a spark big enough to set something else on fire then a sudden intense fire could start in the hold before the pilots had a chance to put it out with the inbuilt system or it simply became too violent for that to deal with. I know it's a long shot, but I really don't think it was a bomb as the fact the ACARS managed to report smoke means that something could have been burning for a while.
BBC News saying all the smoke and heat warnings originated from the cockpit or toilet behind the cockpit. Perhaps someone smoking in the toilet. Now BBC news going on about the batteries. I want to state I made this post before the News at 10 went on about lithium batteries!”
“The more I think about it the more I think it may have been lithium batteries. You're not allowed to have any in hold baggage, but can take them in hand baggage, up to a certain amount, which escapes me now. If someone had gone through security with some in a cabin bag, which is not illegal as such batteries are used in laptops, phones, cameras, tablets, powerbanks etc, then that bag was taken off them at the gate for being too big then it would go in to the hold. The gate agents are meant to ask if there are lithium batteries inside, but it's not hard to imagine this either didn't happen or the passenger simply lied and said no.
As there is no further security check between the gate and the hold then these could have been loaded in to the hold and a fire started somehow, maybe by one of the batteries short circuiting by touching another one or a bit of metal. If that then caused a spark big enough to set something else on fire then a sudden intense fire could start in the hold before the pilots had a chance to put it out with the inbuilt system or it simply became too violent for that to deal with. I know it's a long shot, but I really don't think it was a bomb as the fact the ACARS managed to report smoke means that something could have been burning for a while.
BBC News saying all the smoke and heat warnings originated from the cockpit or toilet behind the cockpit. Perhaps someone smoking in the toilet. Now BBC news going on about the batteries. I want to state I made this post before the News at 10 went on about lithium batteries!”
OMG
Just read up on this. Seems like people carry spares, or equipment with out securing batteries. Seems default position is carry on. But thinking how we carry so many electronic items, and of course counterfeit batteries, many authorities are at a loss on how to prevent such events.



