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July 8, 2010 - The
Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a $168,000 civil penalty
against D & M Custom Injection Molding Corp. of Burlington, Ill., doing
business as D & M Plastics, for alleged violations of Department of
Transportation hazardous materials regulations.
D & M offered a
five-piece shipment of approximately 2,000 Runyan Rapp E-Mysticks
smokeless cigarettes to Federal Express for transportation by air from Each smokeless cigarette contained alcohol, a flammable liquid, and a lithium battery, a hazardous material. Each box contained 400 E-Mysticks, including 7.6 kilograms of lithium batteries, exceeding the five-kilogram limit for shipment aboard passenger aircraft. |
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Because the
shipment was not packaged in accordance with regulations it was
forbidden on all aircraft, including all-cargo flights.
The crew
discharged the fire suppression system during the landing and taxied to
the gate. The airport fire department responded and extinguished a fire
in an LD3 cargo container. The fire was started by the lithium batteries
in the shipment.
D & M offered the
shipment for transportation by air when it was not packaged, marked,
classed, described, labeled or in condition for shipment as required by
regulations. |
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