can cause explosions on flights including this ups plan in 2006. we ll talk to the international commercial airline pilot. there are other episodes. a ups, 47 crash in dubai and experts believe it was caused boy a fire in the cargo hold caused boy lithium ion batteries, right? absolutely. it is glad to be back with you. that was a bad tragedy and frankenstein said fire bad and it is bad in the planes. i applaud the move. isn t it a case that the faa banned large shipments aboard u.s. domestic airliner ares? from what i understand, yes. they have been trying to avoid
the targ cargo survived. this was what was left of a ups plan after it crashed in dubai. the boeing 747 was carrying 80 to 90,000 lithium batteries. a chain reaction fire filled the cockpit with smoke. both pilots died. following the ups crash in 2010, the faa wanted to tighten the rules on battery shipments in cargo planes too. even classify them as dangerous goods. industry groups and lobbyists fought back hard. the final compromise approved by congress in 2012 proposed tougher, federal rule on transporting lithium batteries on planes. instead relying on international standards set by the u.n. randi kaye, cnn, new york. we ll be right back.