ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 370266
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| Date: | Saturday 10 February 2007 |
| Time: | 13:45 LT |
| Type: |  Airbus A320-232 |
| Owner/operator: | Jet Blue Airways |
| Registration: | N648JB |
| MSN: | 2970 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2006 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 136 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | New York, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
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| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During climbout from the departure airport, a flight attendant noticed smoke coming from a bag containing camera equipment in one of the overhead bins. She extinguished the smoke, and notified the captain of the situation. He declared an emergency, and the airplane landed uneventfully at the departure airport approximately 6 minutes later. Examination of the bag containing camera equipment revealed that remnants of a 9-volt battery sustained damage consistent with a catastrophic battery failure. The main component of the 9-volt battery had a flashpoint of 21 degrees Fahrenheit, or room temperature. Other batteries, located in the same pocket of the equipment bag as the 9-volt battery, had unprotected contacts, including two fully charged 14-volt battery packs. One of the 14-volt battery packs displayed significant exterior thermal damage, consistent with damage from coming in contact with another battery. Battery industry research has revealed that a short circuit is the most common cause of battery fires, often initiated by contacts coming into contact with metal objects. Batteries are generally not designed to be able to contain catastrophic failures, and when they go into thermal runaway, they often explode and expel their contents into the environment, potentially causing ignition in areas well beyond the initiating battery cell.
Probable Cause: The in-flight fire which was caused by the catastrophic failure of a 9-volt battery from an unknown cause.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB NYC07IA063
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 25-Mar-2024 08:50 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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