Passengers were forced to evacuate a Southwest Airlines plane after a phone battery caught fire while the aircraft was waiting to depart at Denver’s International Airport in Colorado.
“Everybody saw the smoke, because it kind of filled the back of the cabin,” said passenger Jennifer Rodgers while recalling the incident, CBS News reported. “And then somebody screamed ‘Fire.'”
The incident occurred Friday while Rodgers and 107 other passengers were aboard SA Flight 3316, while it was parked at the gate, waiting to fly to Houston, Texas.
According to eyewitnesses, a passenger’s smartphone started smoking, filling the cabin with acrid fumes, and causing a seat to catch fire, CNN reported.
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