Passengers fled from a plane in Spain after a cellphone exploded and ignited just before takeoff on July 31.
The cellphone supposedly belonged to a passenger from New Zealand and it was in a suitcase in the overhead storage compartment when it exploded.
“The passengers of a flight from Barcelona to Ibiza were evacuated in an emergency at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport because of a fire in a mobile phone that was being charged with an external battery,” reads the statement, obtained by The Sun. “All the passengers were evacuated from the aircraft in a safe way to the terminal and the cabin crew took charge of the device.
“looks like it harfer to get to ibiza then we thought ive never seen so many people so scared in there life! portable charger blew up in the same row as I was sitting everyone tries to run and all I do was put it out with water ? luckily it was just before taking off come on people how can no one else think of doing that fire across the whole plane width of the planeemergency exits are pre fun when there’s not a real emergency,” wrote anthcarrio.