‘Herman and Martijn have been very lucky in Boeing’ – AD.nl

Update TV cook Herman den Blijker (56) and RTL4 presenter Martijn Krabbé (46) have ‘had terrible luck “according to security experts during their flight from Schiphol to Bangkok. Shortly after landing in the Thai capital began in an overhead to ignite the Lithium Ion battery from a drone spontaneously. “This could turn into a tragedy ‘, says specialist Thomas Reitsma. “For such batteries are very difficult to extinguish.

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Herman den Blijker and Martijn Krabbé doing fairly light on the incident Sunday took place aboard flight KL875. While the Boeing 777 taxiing towards Bangkok airport was driving, there was suddenly smoke from a hatch in the passenger compartment. The cause proved an overheated battery hit by a drone that a cameraman of their culinary journey program Put to the test had brought in his luggage. KLM staff could avert an impending fire with an extinguisher. ,, There was nothing actually going on, ” said Herman and Martijn.

The latter is simply not true, rushing safety expert Thomas Reitsma and Raymond man to say. They work at the Dutch entrepreneurs dome EVO which include companies such as KLM advises on the safe transport of products. ,, The Lithium Ion battery is known to be very dangerous. If there is something serious happens with it, the consequences are incalculable, ” assures Reitsma.

The battery of this type is found in laptops, mobile phones and tablets. ,, The producers of these works with good and safe lithium batteries, but there are also batteries by unknown Chinese companies are cobbled together and tampered and subsequently placed on the market. It’s not the big boys, but firmaatjes who do not play fast and loose with safety and manufacturing requirements. It may well be that the battery of the drone in question has a dubious origin and was therefore a defective and dangerous thing. ”

Malfunction
Those faulty batteries can be spontaneously warm, sketches the EVO men. Reitsma: ,, If they are defective, damaged or overloaded, they are suddenly hot or even ignite. The fire that then arises is incomparable, for example a burning piece of wood. The latter can be on fire extinguished with water or by removing oxygen. With lithium batteries that works differently. The ignition is an almost uncontrollable chemical process and extinguish with water or powder is meaningless. Let alone in the pressurized cabin of an aircraft where the environmental conditions are different than on the ground. Water can strengthen the chain correctly even further. The removal of oxygen will not help either. If the gate of the dam goes into such things battery can explode by gases released. That could happen during the flight of Herman and Martijn. For the same money was beaten a hole in the fuselage of Boeing ‘.

According to EVO is internationally for many years at the highest level discussed the transport type batteries. Reitsma: ,, In the transport sector the respective batteries are transported in huge, tightly sealed containers. Airlines like KLM look strictly ensure that this is done properly. But since the batteries are increasingly used in modern technologies such as drones and other equipment, it is almost impossible to check all baggage for the presence of how well lithium batteries. ”

Luck
Reitsma and Human determine that the problem is known to carriers. And they stress that passengers being no need to worry. ,, This is an incident, but an important incident. The KLM staff has acted well and quickly, but that nothing aboard maybe something happened sheer luck, ” said Reitsma who does not know what type of extinguisher is used in the Boeing777. ,, The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) conducted tests with halon in aircraft most common extinguishing agent, is not effective in extinguishing a fire involving lithium metal batteries are involved. ”

In 2010, crashed a Boeing 747 cargo plane of United Parcel Service (UPS) down during an emergency landing in Dubai. In 2011, something similar happened on a cargo aircraft from Asiana Airlines in South Korea. In both cases there was a fire in the cargo, which consisted include large quantities of lithium batteries. Although the batteries were not specifically identified as the cause of the fire, there has been speculation that they had played a role.

Martijn Krabbé and Herman den Blijker after Bangkok traveled to Cambodia where filmed for their travel program .

Cabin crew rushes to counteract the smoke. Links Herman and also directly Martijn. © Twitter.