Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Is there a shut-down mechanism available for lithium battery faults?
One Chinese company actually invented a flexible and solid battery that can even be cut without a risk of explosion but it doesn't scale to bigger capacities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXRyWQgOY4
Which is why some of us here are urging the OP to sue: to make sure the safety innovation has demand in the free market.
Nope, we aren't.
We, as the consumer, say this on HN:
>There is an inherent risk of loss of life whatever you do. We as a society just agreed that there's an acceptable level of it. Lithium-Ion batteries are on the higher level of it but their usefulness outweights it completely. To answer your question, there's a lot of things that have much higher chance of happening on an airplane e.g. a bird flying into the engine or a terrorist attack.
Why push for innovation when you can just accept the inherent risk of death?