On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:00 AM, kravnus wolf wrote:

> you mean it goes on FIRE in the RC plane?

Yes.  Although the most common failure is to catch fire during
charging (usually but not always due to user mistakes like trying
to charge a 2 cell pack on a charger set for three cells), in which
case the fire has been known to take out a garage full of planes :-(
Packs have been known to catch fire when damaged in crashes, or in
apparently normal flight (much more rarely.)  The RC community has
been pretty careful to document accidents to try to isolate the
causes of failures, but the current state is that such batteries
get charged in fireproof containers under supervision...

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209187
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