Draft:AvSax lithium battery fire mitigation bag

The AvSax lithium battery fire mitigation bag is a lithium battery fire mitigation bags designed to deal with overheating or burning electronic devices powered by lithium batteries and brought on board aircraft by passengers.

An AvSax lithium battery fire mitigation bag for use on passenger aircraft

Hundreds of devices powered by lithium batteries such as mobile phones, iPads and laptops are taken on board every aircraft and there is always the risk of a lithium battery overheating, catching fire or even exploding.

By April 2024 AvSax were on almost 17,000 aircraft operated by 100 airline companies across the world and have been used at least 33 times to deal with emergencies since the start of 2017. One of the early incidents involved a smouldering mobile phone on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Honolulu in December 2018.[1]

Concerns over lithium batteries on aircraft have grown so much in recent years that it has now become part of the pre-flight safety briefing to passengers on many airlines globally.

In the USA details of lithium fire incidents on board American airline companies' aircraft or in American airspace are made public by the Federal Aviation Administration.[2]

In 2021 international aerial emergency medical services company Babcock equipped its 20-strong British fleet of emergency air ambulances with AvSax.[3]

The AvSax was designed by entrepreneur Richard Bailey[4] who lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

AvSax won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the UK[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Staff, H. N. N. (2018-12-19). "A special yellow bag helped deescalate a mid-air scare on a Hawaiian Airlines flight". hawaiinewsnow.com. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  2. ^ "Lithium Battery Incidents". faa.gov.
  3. ^ Staff, Helicopters (2022-01-13). "Babcock adds AvSax lithium battery fire containment bags to UK fleet". Helicopters Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  4. ^ Singh, Harmeet (2017-09-12). "AvSax fire containment bags to curb deadly battery fires on board aircraft". ADU - Aviation Defence Universe. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  5. ^ Hirst, Andrew (2018-04-21). "Queen's award for firm's device that stops fires on planes". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-08.