USA: Emergency evacuation of an aircraft after a fire broke out on a laptop

Rescuers evacuated a JetBlue flight from New York’s JFK International Airport following a small fire caused by a passenger’s laptop on Saturday night. Officials from the FAA, JetBlue and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the plane was taxiing to Terminal 5 when a lithium battery in a passenger’s laptop caught fire, the company said. New York Daily News.

The fire was quickly extinguished by the crew of JetBlue Flight 662 NewYork-Bridgetown in the Barbados Islands. First responders and crew evacuated 67 people from the Airbus A320 using an emergency slide system. Another 60 passengers got off the plane normally, the port authority said.

Seven passengers suffered minor injuries, including smoke inhalation and bruised elbows, the port authority said. “Safety is always our number one priority and we are investigating this incident in coordination with the FAA and the NTSB,” JetBlue said in a statement to the Times. Daily News.