An American Airlines flight was diverted after a passenger’s device caught fire, creating smoky conditions inside the plane and forcing it to make an unscheduled landing.
The Philadelphia to Phoenix flight — carrying 160 passengers and six crew members — landed safely at Washington Dulles International Airport Saturday after the incident, which caused a choking smoke smell to permeate the cabin.
Passenger Adriana Novello, 22, told ABC News she was jarred out of sleep when a flight attendant jumped on her exit row seat in a mad dash to access one of the cabin’s fire extinguishers.
“Then I started smelling smoke, and a lot of people on the plane were coughing,” she said. “But I looked behind me, and what we could tell was that there was something on fire in the aisle.”
American Airlines Flight 357 was met by emergency responders when it landed around 11:50 a.m. Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which didn’t specify the kind of device that caught fire.
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