Australian airline Regional Express (Rex) says a smoking iPhone had to be extinguished on its flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney.
The incident occurred “after landing, when a passenger’s mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow,” the airline said in a statement.
“In accordance with company standard safety procedures, the flight attendant carried out recovery actions immediately and the red glow was extinguished successfully.”
No passengers were harmed.
This afternoon, a Rex spokeswoman confirmed the November 25 incident to NBR.
She said the airline had reported it to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority for investigation and directions.
Rex had yet to hear back from either authority, the spokeswoman said.
The airline has released a photo of the smoking iPhone (above).
The Rex episode recalls an incident reported by NBR in November last year that saw a Christchurch man’s HTC Android phone burst into flame.
source: http://www.nbr.co.nz/
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