A plane destined for Prague, Czech Republic from Tel-Aviv, Israel was evacuated during boarding after an iPhone spontaneously caught fire in a passenger's handbag, reports AndroidPortal.
Given the location, the incident caused some panic amongst passengers leading the crew to evacuate everyone to the main terminal building. Apparently, smoke from the device spread through the whole plane and few people knew what was really happening.
The phone belonged to Yarden Leviovej. Her father told Nova TV, "My daughter opened her purse, from which we saw the flames and the heat radiating from it." [Translation]
After the device was inspected, passengers were able to board again; however, Yarden had to leave her iPhone behind.
There have been a few incidents in the past with Apple devices catching fire. Late last year, customers were evacuated from a Vodafone store in Canberra, Australia after a demo iPad unit exploded. Also, a Chinese woman nearly lost her eyesight after her iPhone 5 exploded in her hand. However, most problems of this type have been attributed to third party chargers or damaged devices.
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MaKI - August 20, 2014 at 8:18pm
Reports android portal.... STOP.
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MaKI - August 20, 2014 at 8:22pm
Btw, I'm from Czech republic. There is no evidence, except to "Slovak ANDROID PORTAL"... Don't trust media today! ....
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MaKI - August 20, 2014 at 9:09pm
And since there is 3rd or second article written in last few months based on information coming from Czech or Slovak republic i would assume that one of the publishers on iClarified.com must have some relations there. Otherwise it is not possible that someone from Iclarified.com (which is registered to London) would have such an info coming from totally unknown and irrelevant source even for Czech inhabitants. Sorry guys. I'm glad I can publish my comments here. But you must be czech or slovak living in UK. Publishing this shit without any confirmation or proof of evidence NOVA.CZ, And slovak android forum are not and never were relevant sources. Right.
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MaKI - August 20, 2014 at 9:18pm
Dear iclarified.com, you are becoming a boulevard, right? :-(
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Mike Power - August 19, 2014 at 4:38am
Hey you, nobody has to know my real life ok.
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gamerscul9870 - August 19, 2014 at 4:39am
Nobody asked but I've seen worst for myself, kk?
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Mike Power - August 19, 2014 at 4:10am
mine blew right out of the box like a fuking firework.fuk apple
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gamerscul9870 - August 18, 2014 at 5:37pm
We're the reason, remember about third party lightning cables that damage the phones and assamsung taking the ad literally when bought to airports, maybe the ad explains why the fire happened here. What a conspiracy.
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Yorick - August 18, 2014 at 5:00pm
Probably stuffed with an aftermarket battery
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gamerscul9870 - August 18, 2014 at 4:19pm
Think that's bad, we crisped down an apartment last year, much more loss for living than whatever goes in a purse.
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