SEOUL (EFE).— The south Korean company Samsung Electronics revealed yesterday that it will examine the device caught fire and forced them to evacuate a flight in the U.S. to check if it is one of their mobile Galaxy Note 7 subsequent to the review by the scandal of the ignitions of phones.
"Until we are able to recover the device we can not confirm that this incident involving the new Note 7," said Samsung Electronics in a press release, a day after a terminal ardiese in a Southwest Airlines plane at the Louisville international airport, Kentucky (USA).
"We are working with the authorities of the Southwest to recover the device and confirm the cause. Once they have examined we will have more information to share," he concluded, ” the signature south Korean, without offering more details.
The Southwest Airlines plane was ready for take-off heading to Baltimore (Maryland, USA) on the morning of Wednesday, when detected smoke in the cabin from a mobile phone is in flames.
The phone began to burn in the pocket of its owner, who quickly threw it to the ground, where they burned the carpet of the plane, according to his statements to american media.
After the evacuation of the aircraft, the user said that it was a "phablet" Galaxy Note 7 acquired on the 21st of September and that in fact it had the battery symbol in green color, as it corresponds to the devices released after the review.
The american specialized magazine The Verge showed photographs of the phone crashed, and your box, in which appears a black square that supposedly corresponds to the secure devices.
Samsung withdrew from the market the Note 7 on the 2nd of September and called it a review, after recognizing 35 documented cases around the world of terminals that burned during the load due to defective batteries.
After solving the problem that the batteries were on fire during their charge, to the middle of last month, the firm began to market the new devices supposedly safe.
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