Flaming LAX laptop was a ThinkPad

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Flaming LAX laptop was a ThinkPad

By Tom Krazit
http://news.com.com/Flaming+LAX+laptop+was+a+ThinkPad/2100-1044_3-6117833.html

Story last modified Wed Sep 20 16:20:23 PDT 2006

A burning laptop that frightened passengers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend was a ThinkPad, Lenovo confirmed Wednesday, and that notebook ships with Sony's battery technology.

The incident, described by a poster at the Web site Something Awful, involved a passenger running back up the jetway as a plane was boarding with a smoking laptop that eventually caught fire. Lenovo dispatched a team of investigators to Los Angeles within 12 hours of the incident, and confirmed that the laptop was a ThinkPad T43, said Ray Gorman, a company spokesman.

Because the area of the computer containing the battery was severely burned as a result of the incident, Lenovo has yet to confirm that the ThinkPad T43 was using one of Sony's batteries, Gorman said. That model does ship with Sony's batteries, but some notebook users choose to use different batteries after they purchase the system, he said.

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[walldude]

1. Of all the times to flame out,

the damn thing decided to do it when the guy was boarding an airplane. Talk about bad luck.

[Kutjara]

2. Thankfully, it didn't happen in the overhead luggage bin.

That could have been really nasty.