Incident: United A320 near Daytona Beach on Feb 26th 2020, battery
charger discharges itself
A United Airbus A320-200, registration N437UA performing flight
UA-1456 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Nassau (Bahamas), was enroute at FL360 about
140nm east of Daytona Beach,FL (USA) when the crew decided to divert to Daytona
Beach due a passenger's battery charger suffering from a thermal runaway
emitting heat, smoke and fire in the passenger's bag. Cabin
crew extinhguished and secured the device while the flight crew landed the
aircraft safely in Daytona Beach about 30 minutes later.
Daytona Beach Airport reported the battery charger caught fire, the fire was contained within the passenger's bag. Cabin crew put the bag into a fire retardant container. The aircraft departed Daytona Beach after about 70 minutes on the ground and reached Nassau with a delay of 2 hours. The remains of the device (Photo: Airport DAB): |
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