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Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 04:45:40 MT

SIMPLE FLYING · DEFENSE

LUFTHANSA AIRBUS A321 DIVERTS AFTER PASSENGER'S POWER BANK CATCHES FIRE...

Over the weekend, a power bank fire on board an Airbus A321-200 operated by German flag carrier and Star Alliance founding member Lufthansa forced the narrowbody twinjet to divert to Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS) in the southeast of France.

SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.

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