From an account on Twitter we found a post about a fire on a plane because of a drone! Wait, what? So it appears a DJI Inspire 1 caught fire in the overhead compartment, we do not know the cause of the fire but looks like a moderate one. Glad it happened on the ground and not the air! The attendants quickly put out the fire and removed the craft and its owner!
source:
http://dronefriend.com/2015/03/16/dji-inspire-1-catches-fire-on-passanger-plane/#
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I heard that the Inspire was left turned on. A good reason not to leave the battery in the Inspire while traveling.
Yeah, this was pretty inevitable. Amazing that the first time it happened was with an Inspire or other system with a highly-engineered battery and charging system. I figured it would be some fragile high-C battery with nothing more than shrink-wrap.
I see a booming local battery rental business about to start.
My concern is that we are going to have more difficulties to find batteries when we live far from manufacturers (that we are having now) because of neglected guys :(
Yeah, but hopefully some company will finally offer a safe battery for drones...
Sadly very true
My guess is this is going to have repercussions way beyond DJI.
I wonder if the owner had discharged the batteries to the storage level or had charged them full up before the trip?
Regards,
TCIII AVD
Oh DJI...
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