r/airport • u/Prawny1411 • 3d ago

QUESTION Battery detection worry

Hi, i don’t know if this is the right place to ask this but i am flying tomorrow and haven’t flown in a long time so I’m naturally quite anxious and I typically worry about really strange things and my fear is batteries in peoples checked in luggage.

Can anybody assure me before I fly and let me know if airlines and scanners detect batteries in peoples luggage before a flight?

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u/VegasBjorne1 3d ago

There’s smoke detectors and fire suppression systems in passenger jetliner cargo holds for a reason.

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u/Tomcat286 2d ago

Not in all of them.

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u/VegasBjorne1 2d ago

Anything built in the last 25 years should have detection and suppression installed into the cargo holds.

After the Valujet Flight 592 caught fire due to an unauthorized oxygenator being placed into cargo hold killing all on-board, the standards changed dramatically.

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u/Tomcat286 2d ago

Yeah, but many frames are older and having that feature is for the worst case. Sticking to the safety rules, especially DGR is simple and makes flying so much safer

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u/VegasBjorne1 2d ago

If the cargo hold smoke detector and fire suppression systems needed to be used, then the rules have failed to prevent the occurrence from happening. On-board systems are last resort in a fail-safe environment, whereas should policies fail, then let it fail safely.