“Samsung Electronics Co. could face an unusual second recall of its Note 7 smartphones if one that caught fire aboard an airliner this week is a replacement device as its owner says, two former U.S. safety officials said,” Todd Shields, Mary Schlangenstein, and Alan Levin report for Bloomberg.
“The Federal Aviation Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are investigating Wednesday’s incident, when a passenger’s phone emitted smoke on a Southwest Airlines Co. plane readying for departure from Louisville, Kentucky. A flight attendant doused it with a fire extinguisher, and the plane was evacuated without injur,” Shields, Schlangenstein, and Levin report. “‘If it’s the fixed phone and it started to smoke in his pocket, I’m going to guess there’ll be another recall,’” said Pamela Gilbert, a former executive director of the consumer agency. ‘That just doesn’t sound right.'”
“Samsung has been engulfed in crisis since the Note 7 smartphones began to burst into flames just days after hitting the market in August. The Suwon, South Korea-based company announced last month that it would replace all 2.5 million phones sold globally at that point. Samsung said it had uncovered the cause of the battery fires and that it was certain new phones wouldn’t have the same flaws,” Shields, Schlangenstein, and Levin report. “The phone remains in the possession of the arson squad, which is trying to schedule laboratory tests on the phone. It hasn’t been determined where or when those tests will occur, Fletcher said. There was ‘extensive heat damage’” to the phone and the plane’s carpet, he said. Brian Green, the phone’s owner, told WAVE television news in Louisville that he got a replacement phone at a retail store after receiving an e-mail about the recall.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, that’s too bad. 🙂
If the “justice system” won’t do it properly and decisively, it looks like karma will.
It’s best not to mess with karma. – Steve Jobs
This is your plane full of iPhone users:
This is your plane with just one bad Samsung phone:
Hey, you guys, TTK!
SEE ALSO:
U.S. feds investigating replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after fire on commercial jet plane – October 7, 2016
Computerworld reviews Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus: There’s never been a better time to switch to iPhone – October 7, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung using hazardous materials permit to transport potentially explosive Galaxy Note 7 returns – October 7, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung struggles to put out the fires caused by their exploding phones – October 6, 2016
Under no circumstances should you buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 – October 6, 2016
Samsung phone fire blamed in evacuation of Southwest flight; device was a replacement Galaxy Note 7 that had been powered down – October 5, 2016
52% of Chinese consumers shun exploding, fire-prone Samsung phones; 37% want to upgrade to Apple iPhone instead – October 3, 2016
Chinese state TV slams Samsung over exploding Galaxy phone recall discrimination – September 30, 2016
Exploding phone maker Samsung faces U.S. probe over ‘exploding washing machines’ – September 29, 2016
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge phone sparks house fire in Ohio – September 29, 2016
U.S. regulators warn customers about exploding Samsung washing machines – September 28, 2016
More Samsung phone recall victims to switch to Apple’s iPhone than those who’ll risk another Samsung – September 28, 2016
Higher income U.S. states use Apple iPhones; lower income states use Samsung Galaxy phones – September 27, 2016
Samsung phone explodes, bursts into flame in China; more extensive safety recalls may be required – September 27, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung: 40% of potentially dangerous exploding phones still out there in U.S. and South Korea – September 27, 2016
Cramer: Apple has opportunity for enormous market share right now – September 27, 2016
Are Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones catching fire too? – September 26, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s replacement phones have battery problems, too – September 26, 2016
Samsung phone catches fire in mid-air aboard Singapore-Chennai IndiGo flight – September 23, 2016
Three Samsung phones erupt into fire in China, but no Chinese recall, yet – September 21, 2016
35% of those stuck with Samsung’s explosive Galaxy Note 7 want a refund, 26% want to upgrade to Apple’s iPhone 7 – September 20, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung has a ticking time bomb on its hands – September 19, 2016
Backfire: Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phones triggered by rush to beat Apple’s iPhone 7 – September 19, 2016
Florida man sues beleaguered Samsung after phone explodes in pocket – September 17, 2016
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issues formal recall of beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phones – September 15, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung phones unwelcome on NYC’s buses and trains – September 15, 2016
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners are ignoring the explosions, fires and safety warnings – September 15, 2016
Samsung Galaxy S7 phone explodes in teacher’s hands in the middle of busy cafe – September 14, 2016
Samsung phone blows up in car passenger seat, causes huge highway explosion – September 14, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung to issue desperate kludge in attempt to contain the exploding phone crisis – September 13, 2016
Man sues beleaguered Samsung after exploding Galaxy S7 Edge causes massive 3rd degree burns – September 13, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung phone explodes in little boy’s hands, 6-year-old suffers burns – September 12, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung sheds $26 billion in value after massive recall of explosive, dangerous, flawed Galaxy Note 7 – September 12, 2016
FAA warns airline passengers not to use Samsung phones – September 9, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys garage; home condemned due to fire – September 9, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys Florida man’s Jeep – September 8, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 burns down garage; destroys Jeep in another case; airlines now banning potentially deadly device – September 8, 2016
Apple orders more parts for iPhone 7 amid Samsung recalls – September 6, 2016
Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 damages Perth hotel room – September 6, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung blows it in rush to beat Apple iPhone 7 to market – September 6, 2016
Apple stock up, may benefit from beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy devices – September 2, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung to recall 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 units over exploding batteries – September 2, 2016
Samsung may be forced to recall Galaxy Note 7 over exploding batteries – September 1, 2016
Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 shipments due to battery explosions – August 31, 2016
You replace a mobile grenade with yet another mobile grenade you can expect the same explosive results. The time may be coming very soon when SamSplode will need to be officially classified as a terrorist consumer products company.
Soon: “”We apologise again for the fault in the phones. Those responsible for sacking the phones that have just been sacked, have been sacked.”
Perfect Python bit for this. Heh.
This is the stuff of corporate nightmares.
Samsung must be changing their undergarments every hour, at this point. (I will kindly not provide an illustration, of that anyway).
Certainly plenty of stained undergarments I would think. Wonder if there’ll be any Seoul Sploders lessons learned next time they create an unrealistic deadline just to beat Apple to market?
If you just cast your mind into the near future, you can prepare yourself to hear about iPhones burning up on a plane (courtesy of Samsung skunkworks underhandedness) due to tampering by unknown players (Samsung or Google).
Bad luck with that.
I’m literally sitting on Southwest Airlines flight right now waiting to depart and attendant came on to announce about the Samsung Note 7 phone recall and to turn it off….”if you haven’t already returned your Samsung phone to the store for an iPhone that actually works please do so as soon as possible”
You can’t make this stuff up 😂😂😂
That’s both hilarious AND great! Bah-Bye SamSplode!
The entire plane cracked up along with some oohs and ahhs of “oh how harsh”. SWA flight attendants usually have some funny one liners. I was literally reading this MDN article and was like, the MDN readers will get a kick out of this.
On another note I connected to the plane’s wifi during flight and out of curiosity did a LAN scan of all the devices connected. It gives quite a bit of info on other devices on the plane connected to wifi, manufacture, device info, etc. Low and behold some jack-hole on the plane was using a Note 7. Almost wondered if I should report to the flight attendant.
Makes you wonder why they don’t scan for the same thing? And yeah you should’ve reported them in what could be a life or death problem.
I was once on a plane flight the night after the SNL sketch on Flight Attendants saying an uncaring “Bah-Bye” to departing passengers and as we were disembarking on that flight the FA says over the com system “For those of you who saw SNL last night – “BAH-BYE!”
What App did you use for the LAN scan?
AustinX, PLEASE thank your wise flight attendant. That’s a gem. 😀
At some point, all this disastrous PR for Samsung has to bleed over onto Android’s reputation in general.
Average Android user: “I wonder if all Android manufacturers have similar bad quality in their phones?”, or, “if the most expensive Android phones can have such a severe problem, what about mine”?
ScamScum should get out of the ScamSplod💣phone munitions business altogether. 🖖😀⌚️
It seems that Apple’s relentless innovation, coupled with fanatical quality control, has pushed imitators beyond the edge of their ability to compete. Samsung races to go thinner and flames out on the curve…
This does make Apple look all the better. I love AustinX’s post above.
Thank the stars that boasting about fondling OPP is more offense than exploding Samsung phones.
(For those concerned: OPP = A reference to an obscene and misogynous statement by US presidential candidate Donald Trump. Apologies dear world).
And now after all this time ATT is considering stopping the sale of all Samsung Note 7s.
“Considering?” WTF?
Is ATT just as insane as Samdung? Opps, typo.
The Giant Ball Of Samsung Shame And Calamity Rolls On…
“Oh James, we’re locked in! How will we ever escape?”
“Don’t worry Moneypenny, I’ll get us out of here”
“James, what are you doing?”
“Putting my Samsung note 7 against the door. Now watch!”
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!
“James! We’re free!”
“Exactly. Now let’s get out of here Moneypenny”
iPhone just needs to add a stylus to the plus and it would be game over. I would switch in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, the single best stylus I’ve used is the NuScribe from Other World Computing /NewerTech. It has a small, more accurate nub that never wears out. It’s easy to hold. I’ve been scribbling with mine for years now. I even bought a second in preparation for when it wore out. It hasn’t worn out. It makes all the other styluses I’ve used (five other brands) look like cheap trash. AND it has a working pen at the other end. [Disclaimer: I don’t work for them, don’t profit from sales, etc.]
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/NUSCRIBES/
Folks, I’m all for trashing samdung, but I have to tell you the pic of a plane crash site is a bit uncalled for. It’s likely someone associated with that event died on impact. Post the before and after Jeeps, garages, pants pockets, etc, but consider pulling the crash site. I’ve been a regular reader for a long time, and make my career at Boeing in Seattle. Any plane crash site has great reverence. Please consider the input.
Wow I feel bad for Samsung……NOT!!!! FU Samsung!!!
Try WATCHING it, MDN, before you remove for thinking it supports Samsung. Geez.