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Old 03-21-2017, 12:36 PM   #6359
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Read somewhere that this based on intel that some terrorist org is looking at using lithium based batteries as an explosive. Restrictions also apply on some flights from Montreal to the Middle East
I read that a lithium battery exploding in the cockpit was what they think caused that Egyptian plane a while back. Typically, it wouldn't have caused a crash, but because it was in the cockpit and started a fire fueled by a bottle of perfume, that was it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...gyptair-crash/
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