Originally Posted by G0ULI
"So this battery was either modified or an unprotected design being subjected to abuse by being required to supply current in excess of the design limits."
If you read the FAA report, many of the lithium ion fire/smoke incidents on airliners have been caused by e-cigarettes. Do you think all these were modified? How about all the other li-ion incidents from cell phones, camera batteries, flashlights, etc. Were they all modified?:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf