Forced landing was carried out by American Airlines due to a fire on a “passenger device”

Forced landing had to take a flight to Phoenix in the US after reports of fire on a passenger in the cabin. According to the Daily Mail, American Airlines flight 357 was traveling to Phoenix Sky Harbor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday morning, when a crew member saw smoke coming out of a customer’s “device”. “The device was quickly confined to crew members before landing,” a spokesman for the airline said in a statement without specifying the type of device used by the passenger. The flight was then diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport and landed safely in the Washington area at 11:52 am. With 160 passengers and six crew members, according to FlightAWare data.
Source: News Beast

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