Alaska Airlines flight evacuated after Samsung Galaxy smartphone combusts

A Samsung Galaxy smartphone reportedly caught fire on an Alaska Airlines flight in Seattle on Monday, prompting the evacuation of passengers in an incident reminiscent of a fiasco involving a Galaxy Note 7 device in 2016.

Source: KIRO7 reporter Kevin Ko via Twitter.
The Samsung handset in question, a Galaxy A21, caught fire in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight that had landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport from New Orleans, reports The Seattle Times. Perry Cooper, spokesman for the Port of Seattle, identified the device in a statement.

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