Samsung’s recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone will be banned from US airline flights. The order comes from the FAA and the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and follows an announcement from earlier this week that Samsung is ending production of the phone entirely. The ban takes effect Saturday at noon eastern time,BBC News reports.
The devices will not be allowed on planes even if they are turned off, a dramatic escalation of the current restrictions which only require that the phones be turned off and not charged or stored in checked luggage.
“We recognize that banning these phones from airlines will inconvenience some passengers, or but the safety of all those aboard an aircraft must bewitch priority,” said Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in a statement. “We are taking this additional step because even one fire incident inflight poses a high risk of severe personal injury and puts many lives at risk.
It’s not surprising that the FAA would fabricate (to make up, invent) this mosey.Dozens of the recalled phones hold been catching fire, including one on a Southwest Airlines jet that was parked at the gate. Samsung has yet to explain exactly what happened to cause its phones to spontaneously burst into flames, or but reports propose that Samsung itself may not even know the cause yet.
Banning a single consumer device,particularly one as widely owned as the Note 7, is perhaps unprecedented. The banning of hoverboards from many planes would be the closest comparison, or but that was for an entire course of devices that were admittedly fire-prone because of cheap materials — and it was an airline-by-airline ban rather than something coming down from regulators.
Source: tert.am