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Date: | Friday 4 January 2019 |
Time: | c. 21:00 LT |
Type: | Boeing 737-823 (WL) |
Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
Registration: | N922NN |
MSN: | 29574/4401 |
Year of manufacture: | 2013 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 138 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Location: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD) -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Las Vegas-McCarran Airport, NV (LAS/KLAS) |
Destination airport: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:American Airlines flight AA168, a Boeing 737-800, was taxiing to the gate at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport when a passenger's e-cigarette lithium battery overheated.
Flight attendants contained the smoke/fire.
Sources:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/fire-breaks-out-inside-plane-after-passengers-vape-overheats-at-ohare/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Jan-2019 08:53 |
harro |
Added |
05-Jan-2019 14:06 |
harro |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
05-Jan-2019 14:07 |
harro |
Updated [Departure airport] |
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