More iPhone woes: spontaneous combustion
We’re sure the Apple iPhone is a popular choice of handset for those who like their iGaming on the go. Judging by the iPhone’s sales figures, and recent hype over the newest release – the 4S - with queues still stretching down street corners, we’re guessing that makes for many of you. But how pissed would you be, if half way through a game of Zynga Poker, your much loved iGaming handset inexplicably started to glow red and spontaneously self-combust right before your eyes? Pretty pissed, we’d say. Worse still, can you imagine if you were thousands of feet in the air when that happened?
Well that’s what happened to a passenger of a Regional Express flight in Australia today. A press release by the airline stated the passenger’s iPhone started “emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow” as the plane touched down in Sydney airport.
According to the report, a flight attendant extinguished the phone immediately, no passengers or crew were harmed.
The photo of the iPhone (pictured) shows a 4 or possibly a 4S model with the black plastic clearly burnt in an area on the lower right hand side and the glass shattered over the burn mark. It’s speculated that the combustion is linked to the battery. Yeah – the battery, again.
Nevertheless, the airline have said the matter has been reported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) as well as the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for investigation and directions – with the phone being handed over to ATSB for analysis.
It could have been worse. It could have happened on a Ryanair flight…
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