Passengers on board an Australian aircraft have been a good scare. Luckily it was a regional flight and that the incident happened when the aircraft had landed at Sydney airport. When the passage had not yet landed, mobile phone, a traveler took a spark and began to take a "dense smoke". The rapid intervention of the flight attendants managed to quickly extinguish "glow eye".
Neither the passengers nor the crew were armed, insisting since the airline. The smartphone in question is an Apple iPhone, as shown in a photograph provided by the carrier Rex (Regional Express). It shows the rear face of an iPhone 4S , which also could be an iPhone 4, with a burn on the right side of the housing and various cracks that break the top of the phone.
The site where the burning coincides with the space reserved for the housing of the battery lithium ion. It seems to be a case of spontaneous combustion of smartphone battery overheating. There are other similar incidents caused by an iPhone, starting with the one in France in August 2009, starring a Belgian boy who broke into the hands without causing injuries. Sudden temperature changes will not feel good. Last January, the iPhone 4 of a Norwegian woman as she leaned exploded in the car.
Rex, the airline that operates the line from Lismore to Sydney, has been forced to report the incident to the relevant Australian authorities, the ATSB (Office for the Australian Transport Safety) and CASA (Civil Aviation). The iPhone has been seized and affected is in the hands of researchers from the ATSB for analysis.
