A Delta flight from Atlanta headed to Fort Lauderdale had to be diverted to Fort Myers after a lithium battery exploded in a passenger’s bag around 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
In a statement, Delta said that flight attendants “extinguished (the) personal device and declared an emergency out of an abundance of caution.”
According to air traffic control recordings from the incident, the batter was inside someone’s backpack when it exploded.
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“Ok, so the backpack has been contained. We think it was a lithium battery that caused the smoke and the fire. It’s in a containment bag. No smoke in the cabin at this point. No active fire. It’s in the lavatory. We’re planning on taxiing clear of the runway,” the pilot told the Air Traffic Control Tower…