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Airline passenger’s iPhone catches fire

29 November 2011

Airline 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