The explosion from the phone of Samsung which forced them to evacuate an aircraft in the united States – BBC news

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Image caption The owner of the plane threw the cell phone at the floor to notice that it sobrecalentaba, and the device began to take “a smoke-gray-green”.

A Samsung phone forced on Wednesday to evacuate a flight in the united States that made the journey to Louisville, Kentucky to Baltimore, Maryland.

The passengers were just boarding the plane -which had not yet taken off – when, suddenly, a Galaxy Note 7 began to smoke.

“A customer informed us of smoke coming from an electronic device, and all passengers and crew were evacuated through the front door of the cabin,” he told the BBC a spokesman for the airline.

it Was supposed to be a device sure, they had been replaced by Samsung as part of its plan to solve the crisis for the cases of “explosion” of the battery of your new cell.

The owner of the phone, Brian Green, told the news portal technology The Verge who had bought the device on 21 September.

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Image caption american airline issued a warning recommending not to use or to charge any phone Galaxy Note 7 on their planes.

Green said he had turned off the device and it was not charging.

suddenly noticed that the phone is recalentaba within your pocket. And, when he threw it to the floor of the aircraft, the device began to emit a“the thick smoke of grey-green”.

airlines of the u.s. and other countries, such as United Arab Emirates, had advised against the use or the load of the Galaxy Note 7 in their flights, and even the inclusion of the cell within the checked baggage.

But in this case, the device was supposedly safe.

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Image caption Samsung introduced its latest cellular Galaxy Note 7 in August, but cases of “explosion” of battery you are putting in trouble.

In September, the company asked its customers to stop using the phone or it back to exchange it for another, and he said that it had identified and resolved the problem.

In total, the company estimated that there were 2.5 million cellular affected and called them to fix to fix them.

But at the end of the month, after having secured prior to their customers and to the security agencies that the devices repaired were safe, declared that he was investigating new failures on some of the phones replaced.

“We have evidence about the levels of load on the battery and we would like to assure everyone that it did not pose security problems,” explained the signature south Korean.

The release was made public after some users expressed their surprise to see that the phones were too hot as to bring them closer to the ear during a call.

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Image caption Samsung says it is investigating what happened.

Now Samsung is again at the center of the eye.

“We are working with the authorities and with Southwest to recover the device and confirm the cause,” explained the company in a statement.

“once we have examined the apparatus we will have more information that we can share“, he added.

Green said that the housing of the cell was a black icon square; a symbol that Samsung uses to identify and distinguish the devices old and not sure of the models it has replaced.

The Federal Aviation Administration of USA (FAA for its acronym in English) not yet specified if it will issue new recommendations on the use of the mobile device in their planes.