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Planes Shoots Tied to Lithium-battery Products Prompt New NOT Rule
A Us panel is calling for tougher assessments and detailed labels of air shipments of lithium batteries following two incidents in which planes were destroyed when shipping shipments burst into flames. The Dangerous Goods Panel at the UN's International Municipal Aviation Organization agreed Friday to the new standards, said Mark Rogers, who heads hazardous-materials handling issues for the Air Line Pilots Association union.
The action may cause more exacting You. S. rules for battery shipments. Congress earlier this month passed an aviation bill reducing You. S. regulators from imposing rules stricter than those set by the ICAO. More restrictive rules planned by the Department of Transportation stalled following industry arguments that they would lead to higher consumer costs.
"I've been working on lithium batteries for 10 years and this is the biggest development to date, inch said Rogers, who serves on the 19-member ICAO panel.
Without new safety standards, lithium batteries that can automatically combust were estimated to destroy one You. S. -- registered products jet every other year, according to a survey commissioned by You. S. and Canadian aviation regulators. Shipments of lithium batteries that is included in those used in mobile phones, pills and notebooks have been alleged of adding to two You. S. cargo-jet accidents since 2006.
The Normal rechargeable Battery Association, which represents companies such as Apple Inc. and Panasonic Corp., said in an e- mail statement February. 13 that the ICAO panel's recommendations were a "reasonable compromise. inch
New Rules 'Imperative'
The group told the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to take the ICAO standards, according to the statement. Entsorgung von Lithium-Ionen-Akkus "It is imperative that countries strictly put in force these new regulations that go into influence on Economy is shown 1, 2013, or the hard work by the ICAO Panel will be for naught, inch it said in the statement.
The group previously said the planned You. S. regulations were too costly and wouldn't improve safety. The ICAO standards are less strict than the pipeline agency's proposal.
Lithium batteries for products ranging from hearing aids to laptops can be shipped on products aircraft with few constraints today.
The You. S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibited voyager routes from carrying non-rechargeable lithium batteries in 2004 because they if they catch fire, flames cannot be stopped by products drawer extinguishers.
Labels, Assessments
Packages containing as much as 66 pounds (30 kilos) of normal rechargeable lithium-ion batteries can be carried as products on voyager routes under You. S. regulations.
Under the planned ICAO standards, all lithium battery shipments must be called hazardous material, Rogers said. Companies trying to ship batteries must train employees on how to deal with the battery shipments.
Flight companies such as U . s . Continental Holdings Inc. is the reason U . s . Flight companies or FedEx Corp. must inspect the battery shipments before packing them on a aircraft and after they are removed, Rogers said.
Pilots would also be alerted when lithium batteries are loaded on a flight, he said.
The new standard would exempt shipments of two or fewer batteries from the requirements as well as devices that have installed batteries.
The ICAO panel's recommendation will now be regarded by the organization, Stephane Dubois, a spokesman, said by phone. It will get to be the international standard Jan. 1 if approved, she said.
Two Accidents
Three pilots on a U . s . Parcel Service Inc. Boeing Company. DC- 8 barely escaped on February. 7, 2006, after fire broke out as they greeted Philadelphia, a You. S. National Transportation Safety Board investigation found. The jet contained "numerous" lithium batteries in computers and other devices, according to the NTSB. The investigation, which focused on batteries, was not capable to determine the cause of the fire.
A UPS Boeing 747-400 that caught fire 23 minutes after it left Dubai on Sept. 3, 2010, was carrying more than 80, 000 lithium batteries, according to a preliminary report by the General Municipal Aviation Authority of the U . s . Arab-speaking Emirates. The jet crashed at a military base while pilots tried to make an urgent situation landing. Both pilots died.
The action may cause more exacting You. S. rules for battery shipments. Congress earlier this month passed an aviation bill reducing You. S. regulators from imposing rules stricter than those set by the ICAO. More restrictive rules planned by the Department of Transportation stalled following industry arguments that they would lead to higher consumer costs.
"I've been working on lithium batteries for 10 years and this is the biggest development to date, inch said Rogers, who serves on the 19-member ICAO panel.
Without new safety standards, lithium batteries that can automatically combust were estimated to destroy one You. S. -- registered products jet every other year, according to a survey commissioned by You. S. and Canadian aviation regulators. Shipments of lithium batteries that is included in those used in mobile phones, pills and notebooks have been alleged of adding to two You. S. cargo-jet accidents since 2006.
The Normal rechargeable Battery Association, which represents companies such as Apple Inc. and Panasonic Corp., said in an e- mail statement February. 13 that the ICAO panel's recommendations were a "reasonable compromise. inch
New Rules 'Imperative'
The group told the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to take the ICAO standards, according to the statement. Entsorgung von Lithium-Ionen-Akkus "It is imperative that countries strictly put in force these new regulations that go into influence on Economy is shown 1, 2013, or the hard work by the ICAO Panel will be for naught, inch it said in the statement.
The group previously said the planned You. S. regulations were too costly and wouldn't improve safety. The ICAO standards are less strict than the pipeline agency's proposal.
Lithium batteries for products ranging from hearing aids to laptops can be shipped on products aircraft with few constraints today.
The You. S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibited voyager routes from carrying non-rechargeable lithium batteries in 2004 because they if they catch fire, flames cannot be stopped by products drawer extinguishers.
Labels, Assessments
Packages containing as much as 66 pounds (30 kilos) of normal rechargeable lithium-ion batteries can be carried as products on voyager routes under You. S. regulations.
Under the planned ICAO standards, all lithium battery shipments must be called hazardous material, Rogers said. Companies trying to ship batteries must train employees on how to deal with the battery shipments.
Flight companies such as U . s . Continental Holdings Inc. is the reason U . s . Flight companies or FedEx Corp. must inspect the battery shipments before packing them on a aircraft and after they are removed, Rogers said.
Pilots would also be alerted when lithium batteries are loaded on a flight, he said.
The new standard would exempt shipments of two or fewer batteries from the requirements as well as devices that have installed batteries.
The ICAO panel's recommendation will now be regarded by the organization, Stephane Dubois, a spokesman, said by phone. It will get to be the international standard Jan. 1 if approved, she said.
Two Accidents
Three pilots on a U . s . Parcel Service Inc. Boeing Company. DC- 8 barely escaped on February. 7, 2006, after fire broke out as they greeted Philadelphia, a You. S. National Transportation Safety Board investigation found. The jet contained "numerous" lithium batteries in computers and other devices, according to the NTSB. The investigation, which focused on batteries, was not capable to determine the cause of the fire.
A UPS Boeing 747-400 that caught fire 23 minutes after it left Dubai on Sept. 3, 2010, was carrying more than 80, 000 lithium batteries, according to a preliminary report by the General Municipal Aviation Authority of the U . s . Arab-speaking Emirates. The jet crashed at a military base while pilots tried to make an urgent situation landing. Both pilots died.
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