Cellphone catches fire aboard Air Canada flight
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Published:
March 1, 2018
Updated:
March 1, 2018 4:17 PM EST
File photo of an Air Canada plane. (Stan Behal/Postmedia Network)
TORONTO — A woman suffered minor injuries after her cellphone caught fire on a Vancouver-bound flight from Toronto on Thursday morning.
Air Canada flight AC101 was at the gate preparing to depart Pearson International Airport around 7 a.m. when the passenger’s “cellphone began to burn,” Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said.
“The fire was immediately extinguished by crews and there was no damage to the aircraft, however, the owner of the phone suffered injuries and was treated by emergency services who attended the aircraft.”
Fitzpatrick said the customer, who suffered burns to her hands, was able to walk off the plane and taken to hospital.
There were 266 passengers on board the Boeing 787-9, which departed about two hours later.
“It was very contained,” said Fitzpatrick. “However customers seated around the incident were invited to deplane so we could clean up the residue from the extinguisher.”
Paramedics said the woman suffered from first-degree burns and was transported to a local hospital.
The flight was able to take off for Vancouver after a two hour delay, Fitzpatrick said.
The plane, one of the airline’s new Boeing 787 dreamliner models, did not sustain any damage in the incident.
Robin Smith, a spokesman for the airport’s operator, said that while they haven’t heard of any phone-related fires at Pearson in the past year, phones catching fire are not entirely unheard of.
“In general terms, they’re not uncommon, because there have had to be rules made for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7,” said Smith, referencing a phone that was recently banned from certain flights because of a risk of catching fire.
“Lithium battery volatile problems are enough of an issue that it’s a common topic of discussion and you see photos popping up online.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what type of cellphone was involved in Thursday’s incident.
jyuen@postmedia.com
-With files by Canadian Press
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Jenny Yuen
More from Jenny Yuen
Published:
March 1, 2018
Updated:
March 1, 2018 4:17 PM EST
File photo of an Air Canada plane. (Stan Behal/Postmedia Network)
TORONTO — A woman suffered minor injuries after her cellphone caught fire on a Vancouver-bound flight from Toronto on Thursday morning.
Air Canada flight AC101 was at the gate preparing to depart Pearson International Airport around 7 a.m. when the passenger’s “cellphone began to burn,” Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said.
“The fire was immediately extinguished by crews and there was no damage to the aircraft, however, the owner of the phone suffered injuries and was treated by emergency services who attended the aircraft.”
Fitzpatrick said the customer, who suffered burns to her hands, was able to walk off the plane and taken to hospital.
There were 266 passengers on board the Boeing 787-9, which departed about two hours later.
“It was very contained,” said Fitzpatrick. “However customers seated around the incident were invited to deplane so we could clean up the residue from the extinguisher.”
Paramedics said the woman suffered from first-degree burns and was transported to a local hospital.
The flight was able to take off for Vancouver after a two hour delay, Fitzpatrick said.
The plane, one of the airline’s new Boeing 787 dreamliner models, did not sustain any damage in the incident.
Robin Smith, a spokesman for the airport’s operator, said that while they haven’t heard of any phone-related fires at Pearson in the past year, phones catching fire are not entirely unheard of.
“In general terms, they’re not uncommon, because there have had to be rules made for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7,” said Smith, referencing a phone that was recently banned from certain flights because of a risk of catching fire.
“Lithium battery volatile problems are enough of an issue that it’s a common topic of discussion and you see photos popping up online.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what type of cellphone was involved in Thursday’s incident.
jyuen@postmedia.com
-With files by Canadian Press
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