why loose lithium batteries aren’t allowed in hold luggage, but electronics containing lithium batteries are allowed
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3 main reasons.
1. The main one, as others have pointed out, is that the biggest risk with loose batteries are the exposed contacts shorting. Batteries inside devices are far less likely to have that happen.
2. The second main reason is that if someone’s cellphone or laptop spontaneously combusts for whatever reason the crew can try to contain it or extinguish it. If this happens in the cargo hold no one will know it’s happening until it’s a huge problem. There’s no way to access the cargo hold from inside the cabin.
3. The last reason is pretty much just the fact that nowadays it’s pretty much impossible to do something about it. Everyone has a phone and many passengers have tablets or laptops or other devices. It’s unrealistic to expect them to not travel with them or to make them hand them in, piling them all up in the same compartment only makes the risk bigger in case of a fire. Also people can barely get to their seats properly, coordinating something like that would take too much time for no real benefit.
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