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A portable energy bank probably caused a fire that wrapped and destroyed a passenger plane in South Korea in January, according to local authorities.
Air Busan’s plane caught fire At Gimhae International Airport in the south of the country on January 28, which makes three people on board suffer minor injuries.
On Friday, the Ministry of Transportation of South Korea said that the results of the provisional investigation indicate that the fire may have begun because the isolation within the battery of an energy bank had broken.
The Energy Bank was found in an air luggage compartment where the fire was detected for the first time, and its debris had burns marks, according to the statement.
The researchers could not say what could have caused the decomposition of the battery, he added.
The update is also based only on intermediate findings, and it is not a final accident report on the aircraft, an Airbus A321ceo.
Airlines around the world have prohibited electrical luggage banks for years due to security concerns, which are related to lithium -ion batteries within the devices.
These batteries can produce extreme heat and fire if damage or manufacturing failures make them short circuit.
Lithium ion batteries of any kind have been expelled from the loading of passenger aircraft since 2016, according to a directive of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
In the week after the Air Busan fire, the airline hardened these rules even more, announcing that it would no longer allow passengers to maintain energy banks in their luggage on board.
The carrier said that the new rules were in response to an increase in the number of energy banks that overheated.
A growing number of airlines, including China Airlines and Thai Airways, are implementing similar rules, with Singapore Airlines and its low -cost units to become the last to prohibit the use and load of energy banks on board as of April 1.
On February 28, the Government of South Korea also announced that passengers who address flights in the country should carry portable batteries and loaders in their person, instead of storing them in aerial compartments.
