Smartphone Emits Smoke Aboard Plane at Tokyo Airport
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A dramatic incident occurred when a passenger's mobile phone caught fire and billowed with smoke on a British Airways flight at Haneda Airport in Japan. The flight was temporarily canceled, and all passengers were evacuated.
Smartphone catches fire on flight leaving Japan airport
KYODO — A smartphone caught fire on a British Airways flight on Thursday as it was taxiing for take-off at Tokyo's Haneda airport, but there were no injuries among the 211 passengers and crew onboard, Japan's transport ministry said.
Around 1 PM on the 18th, a British Airways (BA) flight departing from Haneda Airport (Ota Ward, Tokyo) for London experienced a problem where an iPhone caught fire. Tokyo…
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, a mobile battery caught fire in the cabin of British Airways Flight 6 bound for London while it was taxiing on a runway at Haneda Airport on the 18th. The fire was extinguished on board, and there were no injuries among the 211 passengers and crew members.
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