iPhone Nearly Catches Fire While on an Airplane

[STravis]

Article seems low on details - was the user charging the phone, was the phone on, what the f was going on?

 

[Guest]

They should combine the iphone with ibm's new self extinguishing machine

 

[nukemaster]

iFire, there is an app for everything.

 

[billybobser]

Guess they were not holding the IED in the correct position.

 

[gmarsack]

she was probably holding it wrong...

 

[Guest]

@wardler

all electronic devices are required to go through the x-ray machine, including cell phones, some like laptops are required to be taken out of their bags and scan separately in their own tray

but why go through all the hassle of trying to shoe horn a bomb into another device, there's enough energy in a standard laptop battery pack to cause a nice little explosion, all that is required is to disable/remove the safety circuits and short the thing, the energy density of these things are ridiculous, and if you look at the tear down of an iPad 2 you'll see that thing is like 70% battery

 

[Friis]

should ban apples products from air trafic, its not safe.

 

[Marco925]

There was no further explanation what may have caused the smoke and the glow, but it is safe to assume that this was not a standard feature of Apple's smartphone.

You sure apple doesnt consider this a hand warming feature?

 

[tanjo]

Ban iCrap on planes!!!

 

[Guest]

I bet google staged this in desperate efforts to gain market share

 

[Markon101]

[citation][nom]32323232323[/nom]i had this too!! exactly that!!! and no replacement from Crapple[/citation]

Fixed..

 

[NightLight]

[citation][nom]CKKwan[/nom]Lets ask Siri and see what will she say about this.....[/citation]
apparently she told siri to self destruct.

 

[whiteodian]

I'm curious if it was a 4 or the newer 4s. I guess you can't really tell the difference...

 

[Yuka]

Stupid people, they don't understand the beauty in Apple's designs when they get that glowing red and smoke. IT'S ART! ART IT TELL YOU!

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Oh well, good thing it wasn't cause of a bigger issue. I wonder if they'll make this with "it was held wrong" again.

Cheers!

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]It would also be hard to pack enough punch to cause a worth while amount of damage in such a small case.[/citation]

That's not entirely accurate. The cabin is pressurized and due to this, it wouldn't take much at all to cause serious hard / problems.

Big brother, I'm jus' saying... don't come knocking on my door over a stupid Tom's Guide comment.

 

[TheDane]

Siri: "Thank for pressing the self destruct button. We hope you enjoyed flying iFall."

 

[jiyung]

Patent an extinguisher in your iPhone! haha

 

[captaincharisma]

and all the apple sheep on the plane deny it ever happened because the iphone is perfect

 

[jgutz2006]

Apple Fanbois will sluff this off as nothing, which maybe it is nothing, but if your asking one of them to admit that their beloved device is not perfect..but at least they made this "upgrade" .000125 inches smaller than the previous one, i dont care if the screen is more likely to crack.. i mean cmon, its .000125" SMALLER!!!!!

 

[shqtth]

iphones get extreamly hot sometimes. Go in a wird crash state, and cant be turned off. The only way is hope they reboot on its own. Happened to me a couple of times. Had to take my pone out of my pocket, Basically there is supoer high drain on the battery and that makes things hot.