- An e-cigarette caught fire shortly after an American Airlines plane landed in Chicago on Friday.
- Flight attendants quickly extinguished the blaze, the airline said in a statement.
- It’s the latest incident in a spate of electrical fires onboard planes.
The battery of an e-cigarette ignited on an American Airlines flight shortly after landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on Friday, USA Today first reported.
In a statement to Business Insider, an airline spokesperson said “flight attendants quickly extinguished the fire and the plane taxied to the gate,” noting that employees are trained on fighting battery fires and that it read more >>>
Source : BusinessInsider.Com