SYDNEY: Australia’s aviation safety watchdog said yesterday it was investigating after an Apple iPhone apparently began glowing red and emitting smoke after a flight to Sydney last week.
Australian carrier Regional Express (Rex) said a passenger’s mobile “started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow” after the plane touched down from the city of Lismore on Friday.
“We are investigating, it’s quite early on in the investigation,” a spokesman for the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB) told AFP yesterday.
“However, we do have the phone, it’s in our custody, and we will be undertaking a technical examination of it.
“We will be interviewing directly involved parties and also in our technical examination of the phone we are going to be consulting with the manufacturer as well.”
Regional Express said a flight attendant had extinguished the red glow in line with standard procedure and no-one had been injured in the incident which has also been reported to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). — AFP