Three in-flight power bank fires in 2025 forced evacuations, emergency landings, and rule changes. The verified record shows crew actions — not written procedures — determined how each cabin emergency unfolded. On Virgin Australia, crew extinguished a locker fire with…

On September 24, 2021, Hawaiian Airlines flight HA460, flying from Seoul to Honolulu, diverted to Midway Atoll. The Airbus A330 landed safely on Henderson Field's 7,800-foot runway with 67 passengers and 12 crew aboard. But Midway has no passenger terminal,…

A Halon extinguisher can knock down the visible flames from a lithium battery fire, but it can't stop the chemical reaction burning inside the cell. That reaction — thermal runaway — keeps generating its own heat and oxygen even after…

When a lithium-ion battery in a phone, laptop, or power bank overheats in the cabin, flight attendants run a two-stage protocol: knock down visible flames with a halon extinguisher, then soak the device with water or another non-alcoholic liquid to…