Battery fires
I sat in on a very interesting lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) about battery fires on aircraft.
The lecturer was from a US safety group. It had some really interesting films of what happens, It was essentially impossible to put the fire out. It also produced smoke which can fill the flight deck to the extent that no one can read the instruments.
There is no on board equipment to effectively deal with the problem.
A firm in the US is now producing devices that can put the fire out and this was demonstrated in the films.They are a sort of cushion that is put on the fire and a blanket to cover the whole fire.
What are doing to have these devices on board ?