{"id":437220,"date":"2026-05-24T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/easyjet-flight-diverted-power-bank-charging-luggage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:25:39","slug":"something-we-shouldnt-have-in-the-hold-charging-power-bank-diverts-easyjet-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=437220","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Something We Shouldn&#8217;t Have In The Hold&#8221;: Charging Power Bank Diverts easyJet Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254859\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/easyjet\/\"  >easyJet<\/a><\/span> flight from Hurghada to Luton was forced to divert to Rome after a passenger informed the cabin crew mid-flight that they had left a power bank charging inside their checked baggage. On May 19, Flight EZY2618 diverted to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260164\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/rome-fiumicino\/\"  >Rome Fiumicino Airport<\/a><\/span> (FCO) as a precaution due to fire risk concerns, which were escalated under these circumstances as the device was being actively charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The safety risk left almost 180 passengers in need of overnight accomodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,7067,4744,537,1628,120,12101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-battery","category-checked-baggage","category-diversion","category-easyjet","category-europe","category-lithium"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437221,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437220\/revisions\/437221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}