FedEx workers in Vietnam got an unpleasant surprise in April of 2013 while unloading cargo from an aircraft: a shipment that was smoldering and burning.
The Indiana company that sent the shipment now faces a $227,500 civil penalty for shipping Boron Tribromide, a corrosive material and toxic inhalation hazard that is prohibited from being transported aboard any commercial aircraft, along with two other corrosive substances.