Samsung Galaxy Note7 bans by DOT in Airplanes with softy of traveler
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) that today announced about its issuing an emergency order for the ban of all Samsung Galaxy Note7 smart phones devices from air transportation in the United States. Individual or who owner of a Samsung Galaxy Note7 device may not transport the device on their person, in carry-on baggage or in checking baggage on flights to or from or within the United States. This ban with includes all Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices. The phones also cannot be shipped as air cargo. The ban will be effective on 15th October 2016 (Saturday) at noon ET.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said that -“We admit that banning these phones from airlines will aggravation some passengers, but the assurance of all those aboard an aircraft have to yield priority and We are demography this added footfall because even one blaze adventure in flight poses a top accident of astringent claimed abrasion and puts abounding lives at risk.”
Device owners accept accomplished accurate incidents of alarming change of calcification with both recalled and backup Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices.
Samsung and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) support this imminent safety hazard with the company’s 15th September 2016 and 13rd October 2016 recalls. Additionally on 11th October 2016- Samsung stopped the manufacture and sale of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 device.
CPSC Chairman Elliot F. Kaye Said that - “The blaze hazard with the aboriginal Note7 and with the backup Note7 is artlessly too abundant for anyone to accident it and not acknowledge to this official amnesiac and added said about “I would like to admonish consumers already afresh to take advantage of the remedies offered, including a abounding refund. It’s the appropriate thing to do and the safest affair to do”.
What air travelers should know with this issue
l ·If cartage attack to biking by air with their Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices, they will be denied boarding.
l ·Passengers who attack to balk the ban by packing their buzz in arrested baggage are accretion the accident of a adverse incident. Anyone actionable the ban may be accountable to bent case in accession to fines.
l Currently Passengers traveling with Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones should acquaintance Samsung or their wireless carrier anon to access advice about how to acknowledgment their phones and align for a ac quittance or a backup phone. Samsung has provided advice for barter about ac quittance and backup options, as able-bodied as how to acquaintance wireless carriers.
l at http://www.samsung.com/us/note7recall/[external link]. And also give answer on your questions at 1-844-365-6197 toll free number.
l If an airline adumbrate observes that a commuter is in control of a Samsung Note7 accessory above-mentioned to boarding an aircraft, the air carrier have to abjure boarding to the commuter unless and until the commuter divests themselves and their attache and arrested accouterments of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 device. Passengers actually should not backpack the phones in their arrested luggage.
l If a flight aggregation affiliate identifies that a commuter is in control of a Samsung Galaxy Note7 accessory while the aircraft is in flight, the aggregation affiliate have to acquaint the commuter to ability off the device, not use or allegation the accessory while aboard the aircraft, assure the accessory from adventitious activation, including disabling any appearance that may about-face on the device, such as anxiety clocks, and accumulate the accessory on their being and not in the aerial compartment, bench aback pocket, nor in any attache baggage, for the continuance of the flight.
l The Samsung Galaxy Note7 accessory is advised a banned chancy actual beneath the Federal Chancy Actual Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-185), which forbid airline cartage or aggregation from traveling with lithium beef or batteries or carriage able cyber banking accessories that are acceptable to accomplish a alarming change of heat. PHMSA has issued a appropriate admittance to Samsung to facilitate bartering addition of the recalled accessories by arena transportation.
The Emergency Order will be on display in the Federal Register display on Friday, 14th October 2016, and the ban will be effective on 15th October 2016(Saturday) at noon ET.For additional information on the recall, visit website of the CPSC at www.cpsc.gov.
For additional information on returning your Galaxy Note7 device to the manufacturer,
call toll free number over 1-844-365-6197 or 1-800-726-7864 or visit the website: http://www.samsung.com/us/note7recall/[external link]
For additional information about safty of traveler with lithium batteries and other potentially hazardous materials, visit the DOT Safe Travel Website at here http://phmsa.dot.gov/safetravel/batteries.
For all other and more questions about the transportation of hazardous materials, contact PHMA’s Hazardous Materials Information Center at 1-800-467-4922 and also getting info on this Email- infocntr@dot.gov
