Smoking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, last week had caused the evacuation of Southwest Airlines flight 994 from Louisville to Baltimore, while still at the gate.
A Southwest Airlines spokesperson told the media, All passengers and crew exited the plane via the main cabin door and no injuries were reported.
The worrisome fact is that, the phone in question was a replacement Galaxy Note 7, one that was deemed to be safe by Samsung.
According to ‘The Verge’ who spoke to the owner of the Note 7, on the phone earlier confirmed that he had picked up the new phone at an AT&T store on September 21st.
A photograph of the box shows the black square symbol that indicates a replacement Note 7 and Green said it had a green battery icon.
Green, who is the owner of the phone, said that he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking.
He dropped it on the floor of the plane and a “thick grey-green angry smoke” was pouring out of the device.
He said the phone was at around 80 percent of battery capacity when the incident occurred and that he only used a wireless charger since receiving the device.
Green’s colleague went back onto the plane to retrieve some personal belongings and said that the phone had burned through the carpet and scorched the subfloor of the plane.
Running the phone’s IMEI (blurred for privacy reasons) through Samsung’s recall eligibility checker returns a “Great News!” message saying that Green’s Galaxy Note 7 is not affected by the recall.
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