Samsung brass meets DGCA officials as their phones spark air safety fears

admin - News | 2016-09-29 02:09:11

DGCA had sought details from Samsung about the overheating and exploding batteries. (File AFP image)

NEW DELHI: In a bid to allay fears over its Galaxy Note 7 phone batteries catching fire and being barred from being used or charged on aircraft, Korean electronic major Samsung on Monday told the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that only the updated versions of this phone manufactured after September 15 will be sold in India.

The Indian air safety regulator has sought technical details about the Galaxy Note series phones after it has banned the carriage of Note 7 and Note 2 phones in check-in bags and allowed them to be carried in switched off mode, without being charged, on aircraft.

Samsung did not comment on the Monday meeting with the DGCA.

However, Indian airlines are worried after a Note 2 phone caught fire on an IndiGo Singapore-Chennai flight last week. "Samsung may not have started the sale of its Note 7 series in India and it may be saying that only the versions in which the battery malfunction issue has been taken care of will be sold here, but we have a lot of people travelling on Indian flights with phones from abroad.

We have passengers who have bought latest models from abroad and then travel with them in India. The DGCA must keep that in mind," said a senior airline official.

The air safety regulator sought details from Samsung about the overheating and exploding batteries and will examine the issue further before considering lifting of the restrictions on the Note 7 and 2 series.
The Note 7 series, whose use has been banned by several foreign airlines and foreign aviation regulators, is yet to be launched in India. Samsung says it will launch the phone in India shortly and the models coming here would be manufactured after September 15 and would have taken care of the safety issue.

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