Lithium Battery Fire Risk Probed In Dubai Crash

By Bill Burchell

Concerns over the carriage of lithium batteries on aircraft have been renewed as suspicions grow that such batteries may have been involved in the fire on board a UPS Boeing 747-400 freighter that crashed in Dubai on Sept. 3.

Investigators from the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board have not released information about the aircraft’s cargo or the ...

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