> Mobile phones crushed after being lost down aircraft seats have sparked more than 40 fires on planes in the last 5 years...
> Although airline manufacturers are trying to improve seat design to stop these kind of lithium-ion battery crush incidents from happening it is proving to be a challenge...
> [Specific Incident Details]...the seat’s mechanism was electrically-powered. The [burning] red phone was hopelessly jammed in the mechanism...
Idea: Instead of trying to design "can never crush anything" seats, adopt a lower standard of "burning phones / pads / whatever ~can't get jammed in". Then train and equip the cabin crews to extract burning phones (fire tongs, gloves, etc.).