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Southwest flight to Fort Lauderdale diverts after fight leads to smoldering cell phone
Updated: June 11, 2021 10:31 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Passengers on a flight from Dallas to Fort Lauderdale made an unexpected stop Wednesday afternoon because of a fight and a smoldering cell phone.
Parkland native Katie Engleson tells Local 10 News she was on the flight and sitting near a man and woman who started arguing.
“It was definitely very, very frightening,” Engleson recalled.
Passengers on the flight tell Local 10 News that the woman struck the man with a cell phone, and that the phone then started smoking.
“Everyone kind of went crazy and then all of a sudden we see smoke and I heard the words ‘fire’ and then next to us there was the object literally smoking,” Engleson said.
The plane was diverted to Pensacola before eventually heading to Fort Lauderdale a few hours behind schedule.
Southwest flight to Fort Lauderdale diverts after fight leads to smoldering cell phone
Updated: June 11, 2021 10:31 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Passengers on a flight from Dallas to Fort Lauderdale made an unexpected stop Wednesday afternoon because of a fight and a smoldering cell phone.
Parkland native Katie Engleson tells Local 10 News she was on the flight and sitting near a man and woman who started arguing.
“It was definitely very, very frightening,” Engleson recalled.
Passengers on the flight tell Local 10 News that the woman struck the man with a cell phone, and that the phone then started smoking.
“Everyone kind of went crazy and then all of a sudden we see smoke and I heard the words ‘fire’ and then next to us there was the object literally smoking,” Engleson said.
The plane was diverted to Pensacola before eventually heading to Fort Lauderdale a few hours behind schedule.