A flight from New Orleans to Seattle was evacuated after a passenger’s cell phone caught fireplace contained in the cabin.
Fortuitously the cellphone didn’t catch fireplace whereas the aircraft was within the air and all 129 passengers and 6 crew members have been safely transported to the terminal, with no severe accidents though two folks obtained remedy at hospital.
Ray Lane, a spokesperson for Alaska Airways, advised Related Press that the cellphone “overheated and commenced sparking” after the touchdown.
The cellphone was a Samsung Galaxy A21, in response to a spokesperson for the Port of Seattle, though they added the gadget was “burned past recognition”.
Particulars of the mannequin have been supplied by the passenger who owned it.
The fireplace was extinguished with a battery containment bag, nonetheless the smoke from {the electrical} fireplace precipitated “hazy circumstances” which pressured the aircraft to deploy its emergency evacuation slides.
Passengers on the flight tweeted their gratitude to Alaska Airways for disembarking them so shortly, with one evaluating the Samsung cellphone to “a smoke machine”.
It follows the notorious recall of Samsung’s Note 7 range in 2016 resulting from exploding batteries, with so many reviews concerning the gadget igniting that the cellphone was banned from airplanes and flights within the US.
There has not been the same stage of concern raised concerning the Samsung A21.
