What?!?! No injury and death??? Demand a full refund! :^)

Dont laugh , I had one quit in the hull of an expensive
airplane.

Now you've piqued my curiosity. What were you doing with it in your
airplane at the time?

Hurried up and took it out and threw it on the ramp
( outside driveway )...

More like "parking lot" -- taxiways would be analagous to driveways, don't
you think?

while it smoked and self destructed on fire . They
replaced it for free , but if it would have caught
on fire in the airplane , the whole hanger would
probably went up in smoke , planes and all :-(

Good thing you got it out of there. What airport and what are you flying?