Like the title says, why are batteries at risk to catching fire on planes? Why do they ask you to remove batteries from your luggage?
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It’s not that they are more likely to catch fire, it’s that *if* the battery catches fire there’s a good chance a lot of people are going to die.
So either, we allow people to bring batteries on planes and then every once and a while (not sure how often) we hear a story about 100+ that died because a battery somewhere in the cargo hold caught fire.
Or we just tell people to not bring a battery on a plane in checked luggage. Something almost nobody needs to do.
We chose the latter.
These kind of risk assessments are very common, and the airline industry is pretty unique just because of how *often* they pick safety.
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