CBS News: FAA Warns Airlines Of Fire Risk From E-Cigarettes

NEW YORK (CBS News) -- The Federal Aviation Administration is warning U.S. carriers about the risk of fires caused by e-cigarettes.

Earlier this month at Los Angeles International Airport, an overheated e-cigarette sparked a fire in a piece of luggage in a baggage area. Four months prior to that at Boston's Logan Airport, an e-cigarette in a passenger's bag caught fire in the cargo hold of a plane -- forcing an evacuation.

Those incidents and others have prompted the FAA to issue an official warning to U.S. carriers.

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This frame grab from video, provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shows a test at the FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, N.J. last April, where a cargo container was packed with 5,000 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

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