On 15 Aug 2006 22:52:04 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:

So, if you are flying and your laptop catches fire, how do you put it
out? Halon is no good for class D fires.

In a small plane? I'd throw it out the door.

In one of the incidents (there haven't been many ... that we know of)
a flight attendant emptied the fire extinguisher onto the bag
containing the offending laptop, but it was still sizzling. So he or
she picked it up (in another account I read that the FA used oven
mitts from the galley!) and threw it either onto the loading ramp or
onto the tarmac (the accounts vary) where it again burst into flame.
Sounded a bit like the Terminator coming back to life.



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