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After a simple, hassle-free flight from the airline Alaska Airlines, from New Orleans to Seattle, engers expected a smooth disembarkation, but that was not exactly what happened. a smartphone Galaxy A21, Samsung, catches fire on a plane while the crew was waiting for a gate to disembark engers. The fire on the aircraft was controlled, but it was still necessary to evacuate the aircraft quickly. The case recalled the series of problems with the Galaxy Note 7, also from Samsung, which spontaneously caught fire. 632q6l
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According to a Seattle airport official in an interview with The Verge, the cell phone that caused the confusion was a model Galaxy A21 from Samsung. Also according to the official, it was not even possible to recognize the cell phone after the incident and who confirmed the model was the enger who owned the device.
After using fire extinguishers, engers were evacuated from the plane, which was filled with smoke caused by the device. According to an airport statement, only two engers had minor injuries and were treated and released the same day at a local hospital.
What can make a cell phone catch on fire? 2u665t
The main cause for such events is due to a physical process called thermal avalanche. In short, the process causes a lithium-ion battery to go into an exponentially increasing temperature cycle until the battery either combusts or gives off a lot of smoke.
In addition to the fire extinguishers, a backpack was used to contain equipment that is on fire. The lining of the containment case is made to withstand temperatures of up to 1760 degrees Celsius.
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This whole thing about cell phones on fire is very similar to what we heard a while ago with the case of the Galaxy Note 7. For those who don't , the model of Samsung even went through two recalls after explosions and fires caused by the overheating of the batteries of the devices.
All these cases show two concerns that we must take into . The main one is that the rush to launch a product has made some the fine mesh and may have problems in extreme situations that could have been prevented with tests and research.
Secondly, smartphones are getting thinner and working with more and more energy. Just that the resolutions keep increasing, the chips get more and more powerful, more and more sensors are active and all this should work well in a smaller and smaller space. We cannot ignore this fact.
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