Gizmodo Reader Witnesses IBM Laptop Catch Fire at LAX

Reader Tom was lucky enough to be a looker to what may be the first blogged example of an IBM laptop igniting thanks to its bombardment .

So we ’re waiting for a flight in the United lounge at LAX , the trajectory next to ours was steer to London and in the midsection of final embarkation , when suddenly this guy comes campaign the wrong style up the jetway , push other boarding passengers out of the way , he quickly drops his laptop on the storey and the thing immediately flares up like a giant pyrotechnic for about 15 seconds , then grab fire . About a hundred other hoi polloi in the lounge leap up and began a mix of gawking and cosmopolitan panic , I clearly heard a few take flight individuals saying something about terrorist . The fervour burned for a mo while everybody just stare at it , then another flare up , this one much larger than the first , force back a large group of gawkers away . Eventually , the high intensity flaring calmed down and a great ardor kicked in , all the while letting off a thick swarm of white smoke that was tardily filling the terminal . Finally , an employee came over with a fire fire extinguisher and put it out of its misery .

I utter to the laptop computer possessor ( while getting close for some pictorial matter ! ) and he said he his laptop computer was an IBM , that he had ascertain the battery against the recalls on the earnings and his battery was n’t a recall . I do n’t think back seeing any IBM laptops atomize themselves yet on Gizmodo , just MacBooks and Dells with Sony shelling , but it was a tightlipped call nevertheless . If that thing had fire off while that sheet was in the air , who knows what would have happened .

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Also , we got to overhear some of the not - so - data processor - literate the great unwashed on our flight spill about how laptop batteries can explode if you “ get too many viruses on your computer .

Bonus pic after the jumping .

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