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Old 18th January 2013 | 11:44
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New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/bu...boeing.html?hp

with this opinion:
Still, safeguards for lithium-ion batteries have progressed to the point that a fire on an airplane should never have happened, said Sanjeev Mukerjee, a chemistry professor at Northeastern University and an expert on batteries.

“If a battery of that size catches fire, then a whole bunch of mechanisms didn’t work,” Mr. Mukerjee said. “Whoever is making that battery is doing a really bad job.”
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