[Shivetya]

It will be interesting if any major air carriers decide to ban the brand from flight.

with regards to your comment the industry should strive to show otherwise and there should not be any reason to not be able to predict this type of failure occurring at the device level. there certainly have to be some telltale signs that are detectable

[gjolund]

Im not talking about defects, but malicious tampering.

I may not be able to get a bomb on board, but I sure as shit can short circuit a laptop battery and start a fire.

[izacus]

And then the flight attendant will pull a fire extinguisher from storage, spray it over your laptop and life will go on.

Seriously, no need to overblow the issue to add more security theater.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Starting a fire is a manageable problem (the fire can be contained and put out). I doubt you can stage an effective terrorist attack with a laptop battery.

[Cthulhu_]

I haven't heard about that yet, but, there has already been an instance where a plane was evacuated over a Note 7 catching fire.

[zmk_]

On Lufthansa flights you are not allowed to have Note 7s powered on. They make a special announcement about it.

[newscracker]

It doesn't seem to matter that the phone is powered down, as shown by this incident on a South West airlines flight where the Note 7 caught fire after it was powered down.

Here's an excerpt from an interview by The Verge on this incident [1]:

"Green said that he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking."

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung-galaxy-no...