{"id":203030,"date":"2017-03-16T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=203030"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:56:28","slug":"womans-headphones-explode-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/203030-womans-headphones-explode-mid-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s headphones explode mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne was listening to music when her headphones exploded, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-39275826\" target=\"_blank\">BBC reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck. I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor,&#8221; she told the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s face was blackened and she was left\u00a0with blisters on her hands.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the flight crew poured a bucket of water on the headphones as they began to melt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ATSB report, passengers had to endure the smell of burnt hair and plastic for the remainder of the flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Headphones-explode-ATSB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-203048\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Headphones-explode-ATSB-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Headphones explode ATSB\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Headphones-explode-ATSB-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Headphones-explode-ATSB-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Headphones-explode-ATSB.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/195426-why-the-samsung-galaxy-note-7-exploded.html\">Why the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploded<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne was listening to music when her headphones exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":203054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[41988,30816],"class_list":["post-203030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-australian-transport-safety-bureau-atsb","tag-lithium-ion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203056,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203030\/revisions\/203056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}