• zeekaran
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    63 months ago

    Allowed in carry on but not checked bags, for the same reason.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      23 months ago

      One is allowed, one is straight out banned.

      One is high up in the sky, one is on the land.

    • How is it better for those batteries to malfunction in the passenger compartment instead of the storage compartment of the plane? I don’t understand that.

      • @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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        33 months ago

        Cabin crew on aircraft have fireproof bags and rather effective fire extinguishers. Dealing with a battery in the cargo hold isn’t possible.

        If you want to carry a battery on an aircraft it generally has to be less than 100 (sometimes 160) watt-hours, whereas e-bike and other batteries are often 10x that.