SKorea's New Lithium Battery Rules on Planes Highlight Growing Risk for Aviation
In 2016, U.N. aviation agency ICAO banned passenger planes from carrying lithium batteries as cargo. This followed fatal crashes of a UPS freighter in Dubai in 2010, and an Asiana Airlines cargo plane in South Korea in 2011, after intense fires broke out in holds carrying such batteries.
Passengers boarding flights in S. Korea must carry power banks, e-cigarettes on person from March 1
Batteries above 160 watt-hours will be completely banned from being carried onto aircraft. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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South Korea Brings In Portable Battery Rules After Air Busan A321 Fire
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South Korea rolls out UCAV technology demonstrator
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development and Korean Air have rolled out a technology demonstrator for a new unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) at an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) show in Busan.