Illustrative image (Source: Vietnam Air Traffic Management) Hanoi (VNA) - The Civil AviationAuthority of Vietnam has decided to ban passengers and crew members frombringing to planes 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops produced and sold betweenSeptember 2015 and February 2017.
Under the authority's instruction, no 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops in this groupare allowed to be present on planes as their batteries are announced to bedefective. Those violating the instruction can be denied of flights and fined.
The instruction was issued after the US Federal Aviation Administration bannedcertain 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops with potentially defective batteries fromUS flights.
Apple issued the recall in June, saying it haddetermined that, in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Prounits, the battery may overheat and pose a fire safety risk.
Flight crews must be trained to quickly respondto the discovery of such laptops while the plane is already airborne, theaviation authority said.-VNA
VNA
