Breaking News: Fire reported in cargo hold on a Fedex plane about to land at Spokane Airport

[applegrove]

Fire reported in cargo hold on a Fedex plane about to land at Spokane Airport; an extrication has been requested - @KHQLocalNew

[Takket]

1. Hmmmmmmm...

Fighter escort please........... can't be too safe.

[The Straight Story]

2. Landed safely it appears:

Michael van Poppel ?@mpoppel 6m

Spokane Airport says FedEx plane that reported fire in cargo bay has landed safely

[applegrove]

5. Thank gosh.

[2naSalit]

3. At least that airport

is way the hell away from most everything else in the area as far as civilian stuff is concerned. Hope they get landed and out of there safely, and I'm glad I'm not expecting a package!

[Egnever]

4. Aww man my Spacely sprockets!

Hope they weren't in there!

[CFLDem]

6. Must be the terrorists!

Or the Ruskies! Either way let's start a public frenzy or a war over it!

[Warpy]

7. I hope it's safe

and I hope they're able to track back what caught on fire.

[MicaelS]

8. Wouldn't be surprised if it was Lithium-ion or

Lithium-metal batteries. They're permitted on air-freight aircraft, but not passenger aircraft.

[Warpy]

9. Oh, I doubt it was sabotage

Tracking it back means identifying somebody out there with a manufacturing problem that needs to be fixed.

[MicaelS]

10. No, not sabotage.

Just any ordinary air-freight shipment that has those types of batteries. Packages containing Either or both of those types of batteries must be clearly labeled: Forbidden For Transport Aboard Passenger Aircraft,

http://www.thecompliancecenter.com/store/us/labels/shipping-and-handling/cargo-aircraft-only

http://safetravel.dot.gov/PHMSA_battery_guide.pdf

[justhanginon]

11. Sen. McCain has been notified and

will be making the rounds of the sunday morning talk shows wanting to bomb somewhere.