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iPhone 4 Exploded On Board Airplane in Australia

by Pinoylive on 30/11/11 at 11:41 pm

It’s all over the news and currently trending that apparently an iPhone 4 exploded and spontaneously combusted on a flight from Lismore to Sydney. The hottest gadget in the market literally became too hot to handle for one passenger aboard Australian flight Regional Express ZL319 on Friday.  According to a Regional Express statement, the iPhone 4 (not the latest iPhone 4s model) suddenly started “emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow,”. The flight attendant immediately carried out emergency and recovery actions and the red glow was extinguished successfully. The plane was in the midst of landing when the incident occured.

iPhone 4 Explodes Midflight (credit: ABC News)

There are no official statement yet on what specifically caused the iPhone to combust but investigations are underway. In the past, most phone and gadget explosions were battery related, particularly Lithium Ion batteries overheating. In 2009, the European Union launched an investigation after multiple instances of explosions or catching fire midflight happened to iPhones and iPod touches in France, Holland, Sweden and the U.K. Similarly, in 2005 and 2006, Apple also recalled its first generation iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 due to battery overheating.