Jeff Campbell
11-30-2011, 10:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appletell.com/technologytell/article/iphone-battery-meltdown-on-australian-airplane-leads-to-safety-probe/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+appletell+Appletell' target='_blank'>http://www.appletell.com/technology...etell+Appletell</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"On November 25th, a Regional Express flight from Lismore to Sydney in Australia had an unusual occurrence after landing when a passenger's iPhone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke and glowing red."</em></p><p><img height="493" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1322678746.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 150px;" width="300" /></p><p>This certainly is scary! Hopefully just an isolated incident thankfully, but I certainly wouldn't like to see this happening, especially on a flight! I'm curious as to what temperature it did reach since it really did a number on this iPhone.</p><p>UPDATE: Apparently this isn't an isolated as <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/CfeAGP51WaE/" target="_blank">another report in from Brazil</a> on the same issue.</p>