Around 130 passengers faced a mid-air emergency Friday evening when a passenger’s laptop caught fire aboard an American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas.
According to air traffic control recordings, the pilot radioed ground controllers to alert them of a “cabin fire in the back of the airplane” as the aircraft approached Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Flight attendants rushed down the aisle with extinguishers to bring the flames under control.
“I think we have about four to five passengers that were burned by the laptop,” the pilot told controllers over the radio. “The laptop is contained about mid-aircraft.”…