A passenger’s Samsung Galaxy phone caught on fire inside the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight from New Orleans to Seattle that had landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday evening.
Christine Clarridge fpr The Seattle Times:
It was a Samsung Galaxy A21, according to Perry Cooper, a spokesman for the Port of Seattle.
“I can tell you that the phone was burned beyond recognition,” Cooper said in an email. “However, during an interview with one of our Port of Seattle Police officers, the passenger volunteered the phone was a Samsung Galaxy A21. Again, we could not confirm it by looking at the remains of the device.”
The crew on Flight 751 extinguished the fire with a battery containment bag, but smoke forced the deployment of evacuation slides, a spokesperson for Alaska Airlines told KOMO-TV.
Earlier this evening, POSFD responded to a report of a fire in the cargo hold of Alaska Airlines Flight 751. Upon arrival, the fire was contained and passengers and crew were evacuated from the aircraft. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/rY2cFgrmUH
— Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport (@flySEA) August 24, 2021
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, that A21 wanted so badly to be a Galaxy Note POS.
As we just wrote last month:
This is a safety issue.
Do you want to be trapped aboard a jet plane at 30,000 feet when Joe Six Pack’s self-replaced no-name battery inside his shitty Android phone decides to spontaneously combust? — MacDailyNews, July 22, 2021
“Do you want to be trapped aboard a jet plane at 30,000 feet when Joe Six Pack’s self-replaced no-name battery inside his shitty Android phone decides to spontaneously combust? ”
First, that is so presumptuous. The real cause is not mentioned.
Second, it ignores the fact that the same happens with iPhones.
Just a couple of logical fallacies just to start.
P.S. to clarify… cheap batteries can and are replaced in iPhones too, though again, there is no confirmation that is the cause.
Did you notice the date on that quote?
What does that matter? It was re-quoted here…
(*Ignorant)
Doooahhhh…………..!
Looks like Alaska Air needs to have a Tele-Ban….
-wait!
You can find articles on this back in the 2000’s. Looks like not much has changed, batteries still will explode. It’s a feature.
MDN that’s another ridiculous comment. I used to respect your ‘takes’ but I’m not sure any more.