Apple blames third-party AAA batteries for exploding Beats headphones.

Apple is refusing to compensate a woman whose Beats headphones blew up on her face on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne earlier this year.

The woman, who remains anonymous, says she was asleep during the flight when suddenly a loud explosion was heard. The headphones burnt her face and her neck and almost melted to the floor when she threw them to the ground which flight attendants then doused with water.

Credit: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

The Australian Associated Press reports that Apple investigated and blamed the explosion on third-party AAA batteries in the headsets.

The woman says she's disappointed with Apple's decision stating "nowhere on the headphones - or their packaging - did it specify which brand of batteries should be used."

Apple doesn't currently make headphones that use AAA batteries except for the noise-cancelling Beats Studio headphones. If the headphones were in fact Beats, then it's most likely that they were an older model.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has since concluded that batteries were the cause of the incident and that “batteries should be kept in an approved stowage, unless in use.”