iPhone 4 Catches Fire On Australian Flight Due To Overheating

During a flight between Lismore and Sidney Australia a passengers iPhone began to smoke and glow red at mid flight.

The phone was immediately extinguished by flight attendants and thankfully the plane landed safely. It seems like Apple may have some explaining to do and the passenger well sorry you had to go through that as surely that made security a bit antsy.

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Regional Express (Rex) flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney today had an occurrence after landing, when a passenger’s mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow.

In accordance with company standard safety procedures, the Flight Attendant carried out recovery actions immediately and the red glow was extinguished successfully.
All passengers and crew on board were unharmed.

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.
The mobile phone in question appears to be an Apple iPhone (see picture below) and has been handed over to ATSB for analysis.