Remember that iPhone that caught fire on an Aussie plane? The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has now identified the problem: a misplaced screw that punctured the battery casing.
File this one under “quite terrifying”, methinks. It’s been a long while since you’ve been allowed to smoke on board any Australian flight, but that didn’t stop an iPhone 4 that apparently self-combusted on a Regional Express flight late last week.
You know how people are blowing up for absolutely no reason, like, all the time? So messy! Here’s your basic primer – from kundalini to Cartography of Combustion – on all the possible causes of people going boom. [Motherboard]
