SAMSUNG smartphone, belonged to one of the flight of the flight New Orleans – Seattle, caught fire during the landing of the aircraft. This is reported by Edition The Seattle Times.
According to eyewitnesses, during the landing of the Alaska Airlines airplane of the flight 751 at the airport of Seattle on board began to spread smoke. The crew decided to finish landing and start an emergency evacuation of passengers through inflatable ladders. As a result of the incident, none of the passengers received serious injuries, the smoke did not affect the abolition of other flights.
According to passenger reports, the cause of the incident and subsequent evacuation was the fire of the Samsung Galaxy A21 smartphone. Probably in the device damaged the battery. For the localization of fireproof, fireproofs used fire extinguishers, a special refractory bag and caused emergency services.
How told The Seattle Times reporter located at the airport, passengers were promptly delivered to the terminal with a bus . Two of them had to provide medical care – later people were hospitalized with suspicion of light injuries.
“After studying the scene, I can tell you that the phone burned beyond recognition,” said PERRY COOPER (Perry Cooper). At the time of writing, Samsung not reacted to the incident.
In April, it became known that Vivo smartphones party caused a fire at Hong Kong Airport. Chinese smartphones were packaged in three boxes on the palets and caught fire when loading on the plane, none of the airproof employees were injured.