Jordan Golson, writing for The Verge:
Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission “moving expeditiously” to find out what happened.
And this, from yesterday’s post when the story first broke:
Green said that he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking. He dropped it on the floor of the plane and a “thick grey-green angry smoke” was pouring out of the device. Green’s colleague went back onto the plane to retrieve some personal belongings and said that the phone had burned through the carpet and scorched the subfloor of the plane.
That last bit is terrifying.
It’s got acid for blood! It’s eating thru the lower decks and then what? The hull? Corner it in the vents and blow it the fu¢|< out into space!
Very unfortunate for those involved, but this may be rather good timing with respect to the holiday shopping season for those shoppers on the fence and for the switchers.
Should the US DA start pondering a case of criminal negligence against Samsung, or do we have to wait for a plane burn to the ground from 30,000 feet (assuming there’s enough oxygen at that altitude)?
We just returned from a 26-day trip overseas. At the departure check-in, Virgin Atlantic had signs specifically naming the Note 7 as hazardous. On the return flight, it was mentioned by name by one of the flight attendants during the “set devices to airplane mode” announcement.
Depends on how deep that office’s budget cuts have been this year, I think.