Airline passenger’s iPhone catches fire
29 November 2011Airline Regional Express (Rex) has confirmed a passenger’s iPhone started glowing red and emitted smoke on a flight from Lismore to Sydney last Friday.
The airline says the flight had landed in Sydney when the phone started emitting a “‘significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow'”.
A flight attendant was able to extinguish the glow and no passengers on board were injured.
source: abc.net.au
