Plane makes emergency landing because of a Laptop battery

A JetBlue plane made an emergency landing in Michigan after smoke was detected from an overhead bin on a flight from New York to San Francisco.
And it was because of a lithium laptop battery of a passenger's laptop battery. After two and a half hours on flight, kaily Honnibal, 18 a passenger on the plane, head a message on the PA system. "Sounds like fire in 25!"

She looked back and saw smoke.

"I was scared," she told CNN.

"When you see a fire on the plane and you're in the air air, there's nothing you can do."

The plane, a JetBlue Airbus A321, with 158 passengers and crew on board landed safely at Gerald Ford International Airport in Grand Rapid, Michigan, at around 8 pm.

The fire had been extinguished by the time the plane landed.

So far this year, there have been 12 fire related incidents on flights caused by lithium batteries or lithium battery powered devices, according to the FAA.

Source RT News.