Enlarge / This Galaxy Note 7 caused an evacuation of a Southwest flight this morning. (credit: Brian Green)
It looks like Samsung’s exploding battery woes may not be behind it just yet. According to a report from The Verge, a Southwest Airlines flight was evacuated this morning when a Galaxy Note 7 began smoking in a passenger’s pocket. Worryingly, the phone wasn’t actually one of the recalled defective units—it was a new model that had already been replaced by AT&T just a couple of weeks before.
The plane was still at the gate when the Note 7 caught fire, and all passengers were successfully evacuated with no reported injuries.
Phone and laptop battery explosions do crop up in the news from time to time, but they rarely result in recalls on the scale of Samsung’s. More frequently, they’re the result of physical damage, which appears to be the case for both an iPhone 7 and an iPhone 6 Plus that have made the news for exploding this week.
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Source: Ars Technica – Replaced Galaxy Note 7 explodes on a Southwest flight