Airlines warned about Dell laptops

Australia's Qantas Airways is the first to officially announce that it will not allow passengers to charge Dell laptops (laptops) on their aircraft.

In mid-August, Dell announced a recall of more than 4.1 million battery packs for laptops due to the risk of fire. The company has received announcements about notebooks burning during battery charging and after investigations that have identified a cause of fire as a result of batteries manufactured by Sony.

Qantas Airway said that notebooks that require battery recovery and have not been replaced will still be able to be used on airplanes, but customers must remove batteries from the machine while using only the direct power supply. from the plane.

The laptops will have to remove the battery before boarding the Qantas Airway

Sony is currently the main lithium-ion battery manufacturer in the world. This battery is used in many devices such as laptops, digital cameras, mobile phones . but until now only Dell and Apple are claiming to recall the dangerous batteries mentioned above.

Sony said the cause of the error is that small pieces of metal are in important areas of the battery, but the risk of explosion depends on the system configuration. Last week the company confirmed that its Vaio laptop did not encounter this risk.

However, last Thursday the company investigated the incident of a 4-year-old Sony Vaio suddenly burning while charging. According to KMBC-TV, this laptop was fired on Wednesday morning and firefighters were called to a mansion in Kansas City.

HOANG TUNG