Plane evacuated after phone catches fire mid-air

An Alaska Airlines aircraft, Flight 751, flying from New Orleans to Seattle, US had to evacuate on arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a passenger’s phone caught fire mid-air. Alaska Airlines in a statement to The Verge said that the flight crew had to use fire extinguishers and a “battery containment bag to stop the phone from smoking”. Due to the smoke and use of fire extinguishers inside the cabin, it was difficult to make the passenger deboard the plane as they would have normally and evacuation slides had to be deployed at the airport “due to hazy conditions inside the cabin”.