Woman suffers from burns after cellphone caught fire in an Air Canada plane
TORONTO — A woman suffered burns to her hands after her cellphone caught fire on an Air Canada flight while it sat on the tarmac in Toronto, the airline said Thursday.
The incident happened around 7 a.m. as the plane was at a gate before its scheduled departure to Vancouver from Pearson International Airport, said Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick said the fire was immediately put out and the plane’s 266 passengers did not have to evacuate.
“It was very contained,” he said. “However customers seated around the incident were invited to deplane so we could clean up the residue from the extinguisher.”