Lithium battery ignites on Air China flight in mid air

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00:00Imagine you're on a flight, everything seems normal when all of a sudden you hear a loud bang

00:05and fire erupts out of an overhead luggage compartment. Actually, I'm sorry for making

00:12you imagine that because that is terrifying, but it did happen recently. A frightened and very full

00:17China Air flight experienced that very nightmarish scenario IRL. The culprit, as you may or may not

00:24have guessed, lithium batteries. The carry-on combustion filled the cabin with smoke and

00:29forced the plane, which was bound for South Korea, to make an emergency landing in Shanghai.

00:33Video from Chinese social media sites published by NBC News shows flames billowing out of the

00:39compartment as two brave flight attendants armed with fire extinguishers rushed to put out the

00:43blaze. Thankfully, no one was injured. Now, you are allowed to fly with lithium batteries, but as I

00:49think we all just learned from this story, they need to be taken in carry-ons. Obviously, we just saw

00:54this. An explosion in coach is really scary stuff, but if they were in the cargo hold with the checked

01:00bags, a fire could do a lot more damage before being detected.