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A SAMSUNG smartphone sent smoke from an overhead baggage compartment into the cabin on an IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai yesterday, India’s aviation regulator said, but there was no damage and the aircraft landed safely.
Passengers alerted cabin crew who opened the compartment to see sparks and smoke coming from the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone, the airline, owned by InterGlobe Aviation, said.
The incident comes after Samsung recalled its new Note 7 phones across the globe due to faulty batteries causing the devices to catch fire while charging or in normal use.
The problems knocked billions of dollars off the market value of Samsung Electronics, which had tried to pre-empt rival Apple by launching the almost US$900 Note 7 on August 19, about a month ahead of the latest iPhone release.
There have been no previous reports of similar problems with the Note 2 model, first released in 2012.
A spokesman for India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said it would send an advisory to airlines warning passengers to keep all Samsung Note smartphones switched off during flights or to avoid taking the phones onto commercial jets altogether.
It has summoned Samsung representatives to its office in New Delhi on Monday.
A Samsung spokesman in India had no immediate comment but said that the company would be issuing a statement soon.
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