Plane returns to Wichita after passenger’s phone, power bank overheat

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A plane leaving Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport turned back Sunday afternoon after a passenger’s phone and power bank overheated.

Around 2:30 p.m., Airport Police and Fire responded to a report of a possible cell phone fire aboard a commercial flight

According to Alaska Airlines, an Embraer 175 jet was en route to Seattle when a passenger experienced an overheating issue involving her cell phone and its power bank…

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