Yes, they do often have their heads up their behinds.
Learn something about the history of the FAA with regards to their years of ignoring NTSB recommendation about saving passengers from fires.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Banned From All U.S. Flights
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Yes, they do often have their heads up their behinds.
Learn something about the history of the FAA with regards to their years of ignoring NTSB recommendation about saving passengers from fires.
So my question is how does all of this relate to devices stored in the hold? And have there been any cases of fires from a li-ion device in checked baggage bringing a plane down? Because I honestly hadn't considered that before.
There are always people eager to criticize others without doing the investigation or even understanding others.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/13/samsung-note-7-customers-100-credit-stay-loyal/
Right decision. Another explosion today. It exploded in a conference room of a company.
It's funny reading all the Apple haters and Samsung apologists rushing to this site to attack Apple because Samsung royally screwed up. It must really suck to be a Samsung fanboy right about now.
We wouldn't be doing it if it was LG or Sony or some other Apple competitors like that. We're only doing it because of the Samsung's history of making fun of Apple. Not only Samsung itself, but their obnoxious fanboys(paid or not) who constantly attack Apple on EVERY Apple sites.
I'm not so gullible; I'll take the word of research performed by several agencies/departments funded by hundreds of billions of dollars over some dude on MacRumors.
But - I digress - whatever helps you sleep at night.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is not banned when flying South Korea-based airlines, such as Asiana Airlines and Korean Air (as they fear reprisal from the nation's #1 mega conglomerate). It will be interesting to hear their flight attendants announcing the ban on a flight to and from US.
But at least it has a headphone jack
Yeah, I'd love to see your average TSA agent try to tell a Galaxy Note 7 apart from any other Samsung cell phone.
Had this been the iPhone 7, can you imaging TSA agents trying to tell the difference between a 6, 6S and 7?
"Which way are the antenna bands supposed to go?", "Does this look like a physical home button to you?"
"Which way are the antenna bands supposed to go?", "Does this look like a physical home button to you?"
Yeah, alright because the iPhone 8 is going to be a pile of poo?! LOL.
I will celebrate, have a great night...
I actually prefer research to be from sources that don't have skin in the game, myself...I'm not so gullible; I'll take the word of research performed by several agencies/departments funded by hundreds of billions of dollars over some dude on MacRumors.
But - I digress - whatever helps you sleep at night.
How can they not have found out the cause of it yet? That's the insane thing.
Well, let's say some positive things. They had a really nice looking phone once. When they copied the 3GS. And they had a really nice looking tablet once. When they copied the iPad. The UI wasn't that good, but they had a 130 book with improvements. By making it look more like iOS.
lol
Let's see, bladerunner2000 tried to take the high road, despite his entire post history being the very same thing he complains about, except against Apple. kdarling has tried changing the subject with correct but irrelevant facts. now we just need mi7tchy to post links from isolated iPhone fires from 2014 and radon87000 to unironically claim that the Note explodes from "too much innovation" (despite having quite literally nothing about it that's an innovation this year, other than exploding which is admittedly novel) and the circle of life is complete.
Let's see, bladerunner2000 tried to take the high road, despite his entire post history being the very same thing he complains about, except against Apple. kdarling has tried changing the subject with correct but irrelevant facts. now we just need mi7tchy to post links from isolated iPhone fires from 2014 and radon87000 to unironically claim that the Note explodes from "too much innovation" (despite having quite literally nothing about it that's an innovation this year, other than exploding which is admittedly novel) and the circle of life is complete.
Apr 7, 1994, a FedEx Flight 705 made an emergency landing in upstate New York when a fire broke out inside one of the packages in the cargo containers onboard. Luckily the crew quickly landed, and 5 people got off the plane safely before it was destroyed by fire. I don't think they found out exactly what started the fire, but it was from a package. It could have been a battery, or fuel, or something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
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I'll admit I'm a little impressed with the amount of attention you've been paying to the forums here.
You know, there was a time when you could choose "smoking or non-smoking" for your airline flight.