Whilst Lithium battery fire awareness has already been improved for flight and cabin crews, recent inflight and ground incidents have shown that passengers and, to some extent, ground staff still have little knowledge on specific issues such as thermal runaway within Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs), or the carriage of spare batteries.
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