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Phone catches fire on flight

A smoking cellphone caused some tense moments on an airline flight in India, Friday.

The Indigo Airlines Airbus A-320 was descending towards Chennai, on the country's southeast coast, when a passenger noticed smoke coming from an overhead locker.

The flight was en route from Singapore.

Several passengers noticed a smell of smoke and alerted the cabin crew.

They found an overheating Galaxy Note 2 smartphone and extinguished the flames with a fire extinguisher, according to reports by NDTV and aviation website aeroinside.com.

The phone was doused with water and secured in a container in the lavatory while the aircraft continued for a safe landing.

India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation confirmed the Samsung phone's lithium battery caught fire, and is investigating the incident.

It's more bad news for Samsung, whose Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have been recalled worldwide due to overheating batteries causing fires.

Several civil aviation authorities have banned the use or charging of such phones on board of aircraft.



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