After the Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year, it looks like Samsung has a new reason to worry as a Galaxy J7 smartphone mysteriously caught on fire mid-air in a Jet Airways flight travelling from New Delhi to Indore on Friday. None of the 120 passengers on board were harmed and the crew managed to put out the fire by submerging the device in water.
The Galaxy J7 smartphone belonged to Arpita Dhal, a Delhi resident who had kept the phone with three other handsets in her handbag under the seat.
Hindustan Times reports. Dhal noticed smoke emitting from the bag 15 minutes into the flight and called the crew for help. The crew tried to douse the fire with extinguishers on board that did not work, says Atul, Arpita's husband. "It was a mid-air panic. We prayed to god," Atul said.
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