Press release
Position Paper IFALPA: Lithium Battery Fire/Smoke Risk on the Flight Deck
Lithium battery fire and smoke events in aviation pose various safety risks. Studies by EASA, FAA, and ICAO highlight the risk of lithium battery and Personal Electronic Device (PED) fire and smoke in the flight deck. A fire of any magnitude in the flight deck is a serious event and a risk to flight safety, but lithium battery fires may be impossible to contain. It is the unique characteristics of a lithium battery thermal runaway event that creates an increased risk dimension to this hazard mitigation issue (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Fire Risk from Lithium Batteries in Airport Vehicles
Electrification of airside service vehicles is gradually becoming a normalized and integral part of airport operations with electric cars and other lithium battery powered airport ground equipment already being widely used in many airport environments. It is anticipated that other airport machinery, such as pushback vehicles, fuelling trucks and loading equipment, airport installations or ground / facility units, will be introduced in pursuit of carbon neutral goals of airports and air operators. The continuance of this trend will inevitably increase the number of electric vehicles used airside at airports, including in proximity to aircraft, which will increase the risk of an electric vehicle fire affecting aircraft and other critical infrastructure (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Energy Content of Lithium Batteries in Air Cargo
ICAO adopted a provision to limit the State of Charge (SOC) of bulk Lithium-Ion Batteries (UN 3480) and Lithium-Ion Batteries packed with equipment (UN 3481) shipped as cargo on aircraft to 30%. Research by Underwriters Laboratories(1) and the FAA(2)(3) as well as other unpublished data indicate that failures involving current models of lithium-ion batteries at SOC below 30% are unlikely to result in thermal runaway, and if there is thermal runaway, propagation from one cell to another is unlikely. Flammable gas production is also greatly reduced for tested batteries with reduced SOC. Lithium-ion batteries transported at less than 30% SOC are also less likely to aggravate a fire in case of exposure to an external flame source (...)
Spécial Cometec n°13 – Janvier 2016
La Cometec vous propose de revenir sur le mode de « fabrication » des textes réglementaires et met un coup de projecteur sur deux nouvelles réglementations au cœur du métier de pilote, le règlement 83/2014 qui traite des temps de vol et de repos, « les fameux FTL », et le règlement EU 376/2014 sur les comptes rendus d’événements. Les conséquences dramatiques de feux de batteries au lithium sont également abordées au travers de l’étude des rapports d’accidents des vols Asiana 991 et UPS6 à Dubaï. PBN, CMC biométrique et Cyber sécurité complètent ce Spécial Cometec n°13 qui retrace une année particulièrement riche.
Spécial Cometec n°11 – Janvier 2015
Assertivité, monolinguisme dans un cockpit, Batteries au lithium, Pay to fly, Big Data ou Conseil de discipline… Autant de sujets abordés dans ce spécial Cometec n°11, particulièrement riche, qui souligne la diversité des travaux de la « Cometec », la Commission technique du SNPL !