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Incident: United B772 over Atlantic on Dec 19th 2023, passenger phone changes communication method By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jan 4th 2024 20:20Z, last updated Thursday, Jan 4th 2024 20:20Z A United Boeing 777-200, registration N78001 performing flight UA-57 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), was enroute at FL330 over the Atlantic Ocean about 170nm northeast of St. John's,NL (Canada) about to enter Oceanic Airspace when a passenger's smartphone started to emit smoke signals. While flight attendants discharged Halon fire extinguishers onto the phone the flight crew declared emergency and requested to divert to St. John's. The flight attendants extinguished the fire and put the smartphone into a secure container, the flight crew cancelled the emergency about 9 minutes after declaring emergency and requested to continue to their destination, where the aircraft landed about 6:50 hours after departure.