Re: Exploding laptop?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could something, say a soda or water, have been spilled and caused short 
circuiting?

Don wrote:
> Oh Great.  Just what we need.  Something else to get the knuckle draggers 
> at the TSA excited about...  OK, so at least it was identified in the 
> article as a Dell...which we don't use... :)
>
> It could be worse case scenerio of an overcharged battery...I would be 
> curious if the unit was plugged in when this happened.  Which means it is a 
> scenerio that wouldn't happen in flight...as it was triggered by a 120vac 
> connection catalyst.
>
> Don in DC
>
> At 11:54 AM 6/21/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550
> >
> > To be honest, I have my doubts that a laptop has enough energy to
> > explode that dramatically.
> >
> > david
> >
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