Smoking Samsung phone sparks warning on Indian flight
“(The crew) celebrated fume being issued from Samsung Note 2 that was placed in a container (of a passenger) in beyond bin.” PHOTO: REUTERS
NEW DELHI: A smoking Samsung phone sparked alarm on an Indian moody on Friday, a airline said, weeks after a manufacturer removed 2.5-million units of a latest indication when batteries began throwing glow while charging.
Airline IndiGo pronounced it had dealt with an occurrence involving “minor smoke” entrance from a Samsung Note 2 device in a passenger’s palm luggage on a moody from Singapore to a southern Indian city of Chennai.
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The phone was not a same indication as that concerned in a recall.
“IndiGo confirms that a few passengers travelling on 6E-054 from Singapore to Chennai beheld a fume smell in a cabin this morning and immediately alerted a cabin organisation on board,” a airline pronounced in a statement.
“(The crew) celebrated fume being issued from Samsung Note 2 that was placed in a container (of a passenger) in beyond bin.”
Crew used a glow extinguisher before submerging a phone in H2O and a craft done a normal landing.
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The world’s largest builder of mobile phones removed 2.5-million units of a top-of-the-range model, Note 7 after a batteries began throwing glow while charging.
The remember has put uninformed vigour on Samsung, that is already squeezed by foe from Apple in a high-end marketplace and Chinese rivals in a low-and mid-end segment.
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