Battery-Powered Devices Are Overheating More Often on Planes and Raising Alarm Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put ...

The electronics maker Anker recalled its PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 after receiving 19 reports ...

Citing safety concerns, Southwest Airlines will no longer allow passengers to charge devices with a power bank stowed inside ...

and some no longer take bulk battery shipments. The most common lithium-ion-powered devices on planes are phones, laptops, wireless headphones and tablets. About 35% of reported overheating ...

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes, and that is raising safety concerns because of the fire danger. The risk is coming from lithium-ion batteries that power all kinds of ...