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@GibraltarPilots 😂

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@TheERDoctor Philomena Cunk asked about it 😂

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@LebrunSimon 👍🏼

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@HateDetectors Tank ruptured while being filled with CNG 🤔
Can be due to 1 or more of the 10-15 probable cause
Including rapid filling
Hope no one is injured

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One must read “On the Origin of Species”
by Charles Darwin
to avoid such doubts and beliefs.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

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@shanghaidaily responded at 7:29am, extinguished by 7:50am on the same day ?

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@KimGhattas @RameshPV2010 @spenley AIs are also risky for interpreting dangerous goods regulations, ChatGpt, Gemini, Gork , Claude all had come up with faulty conclusions some if adopted may seriously jeopardise safety of life at sea.
They even cook up non existent rules.

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@TimothyDooner Thanks for sharing
Which vessel ?

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

DGCA knows power banks can burn an aircraft. Its answer is still only advice.

The FAA warns that an uncontained in-flight fire can destroy an aircraft in as little as 20 minutes, while a smoke-filled cabin can be overwhelmed by fire within 6–10 minutes.

Now consider that scenario at 37,000 feet over the Arabian Sea or the Bay of Bengal, where the nearest suitable diversion airport may be more than an hour away—or over the Pacific, where an airport can be several hours away.

For an aircraft on fire, distance from the nearest runway is not measured in miles. It is measured in minutes of survivability.

Last week a KLM 777 turned back over the Atlantic. A power bank caught fire in business class. It was on charge, against the airline's own rule. Fortunately the crew were able to control the fire because of stringent European safety regulations that included mandated Lithium battery fire drill practice.

In May, IndiGo 6E108 had a power bank ignite in a seat pocket while taxiing in at Chandigarh. The crew used extinguishers. The slides were deployed. Six people were hurt in the evacuation. This came about six months after DGCA's circular on the subject.

In January 2025, Air Busan lost an A321 on the ground at Gimhae. Investigators linked the fire to a power bank in an overhead bin.

Why this fire is different

Halon knocks down the flame. It does not stop the reaction inside the cells. Only cooling with water does that. Then the crew must wait, contain the device, and watch it until landing. In an overhead bin the source is hidden, and the bags around it become fuel.

What DGCA did

Dangerous Goods Advisory Circular 01/2025, issued in November 2025, says the right things. Power banks in hand baggage only. Not in overhead bins. No use or charging in flight. Brief the passengers. Review the equipment. Reinforce the training. Report every event.

Where DGCA falls short

The circular is an advisory. It is not a Civil Aviation Requirement. That one fact explains the rest.

There is no implementation date, no inspector checklist, and no penalty.

Operators are told to "review" their equipment. No minimum kit is specified( eg containment bags).

Training rules still describe generic fire and smoke drills. No practical lithium drill is mandated.

The bin ban has no gate process. When a cabin bag goes to the hold at the boarding gate , nobody is required to ask about a power bank and nor is it scanned to confirm the same.

Watt-hour limits depend on a printed label. Nobody at the checkpoint checks it.

Operators report events to DGCA. DGCA publishes no national data and no national checklist.

Five fixes

1.Convert the circular into a CAR, with a date, a checklist and a finding category.

2.Specify the kit: water containment and fire gloves in every cabin.

3.Mandate a recurrent practical drill that covers cooling and isolation.

4.Power banks come out of every gate-checked bag.

5.Publish one national cabin checklist for lithium fires.

DGCA accepted the diagnosis in November 2025 and the Chandigarh incident showed that advice alone does not hold. Telling operators to be careful is not the same as giving them a standard they can train, equip, audit and enforce on a twenty-five-minute turnaround.

The gap is closable. DGCA has not closed it.

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

Two Big Safety Gaps: Lithium Battery Power Bank Inflight Fire Hazard

First Gap :

How is the overhead bin power bank prohibition rule enforced? By an announcement. That is all!

Cabin crew cannot open bags. Most passengers do not know what is in their own bag, let alone the rule.

In July this year, a power bank inside a bag caught fire in an overhead bin on a China Eastern A320 taxiing in after landing. The crew put it out. Nobody was hurt. But the bag was exactly where the rules say it should not be.

There is a second gap:

I think it is worse. When the bins are full, cabin bags are taken at the gate and sent to the hold. The power banks inside go with them, unless someone asks and the passenger remembers. A battery fire in the hold is a very different event from one in the cabin.

After decades on the flight deck, I know a rule that depends on every passenger remembering it is a thin layer of safety, not a barrier.

What would help:

1.A firm question every single time a bag is gate-checked: "Any power banks or spare batteries inside?"

2.Gate checks with bag tags for the bins, as Air Busan introduced after it lost an aircraft to a cabin fire.

3.Proper quality standards for power banks. Cheap, badly made cells start most of these fires. Every other measure only manages the fire after it begins.

The rules are moving the right way. The enforcement has not caught up. What are crews seeing on the line?

#AviationSafety #LithiumBatteries #CabinSafety @DGCAIndia

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@6ESinger157593 Whenever I see boarding gate asking to shift cabin bag to the belly I think the same (When a cabin bag goes to the hold at the boarding gate , nobody is required to ask about a power bank)

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@KaptanHindustan They are called Railway Track Explosives

https://t.co/JMY66BZ15b

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@BartGonnissen I really do not know why people were /are so mad at Mercator projection

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@AmitWorldPeace Highly hazardous and risky job, appreciate his skills but this has to be done in a safe and legal manner

https://t.co/TyPwf9aPAY

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@snehamordani @SanjeevKapoor @IndiaToday What India does with used cooking oil?
Any way here the international transport standard

https://t.co/aW67q7VseQ

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@BartGonnissen 👍🏼

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🚨 Tainan waste-site blast: Fire on a vacant lot storing aluminium-magnesium alloy waste turned into an explosion mid-firefighting
15 injured (3 firefighters), 68 homes damaged.
https://t.co/PNkhqJr0L6
#Class4.3 #IMDG #DangerousGoods #MaritimeSafety #Tainan #AluminiumMagnesium

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bulk carrier MV Ocean Winner has sunk in the Bay of Bengal after departing Paradip Port with iron ore fines.
2 crew rescued from liferafts, 22 still missing. SAR operation ongoing.
Full details: https://t.co/4C6WsMeFAp
#OceanWinner #BayOfBengal #MaritimeSafety

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@singhalnaveens OMG