Originally Posted by Man-on-the-fence
I work in IT and had to make a service call for one of these today, the Bod on the end of the phone says it is suspected that this may happen while charging. So unlikely to happen at Security.
But I thought there had been some cases of Dell computers burning when on the move, eg. at a conference in Japan, in an SUV in Nevada (truck burned to a cinder) and on a Lufthansa plane at Chicago. I am following this since my laptop is one of the affected....