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Friday 5 November 2010
MORE LITHIUM BATTERIES
The UK CAA has seen fit to answer my request for a definitive position on lithium batteries by producing FODCOM 30/10 http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/FOD201030.pdf. However, after some lengthy discussion about how we got where we are and reference to the recent 747F crash in Dubai (which was carrying a lot of these things), the conclusion they offer is that we should simply continue to comply with the ICAO Technical Instructions on carriage of lithium batteries. The logic is that they have no hard evidence that batteries shipped in accordance with the TIs have caused fires... That helps.
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