Alaska Airlines flight evacuated after landing due to onboard cell phone spark

A passenger’s cell phone began to spark on an Alaska Airlines flight on Monday, forcing passengers and crew to evacuate shortly after landing at Sea-Tac International Airport.

On Monday evening, officials responded to a report of a fire in the cargo hold of Flight 751, which was arriving in Seattle from New Orleans.

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Port of Seattle firefighters arrived at the scene and 129 passengers and six crew members were forced to evacuate.

At first, officials, including Alaska Airlines, believed the cell phone caught fire “shortly after landing at Sea-Tac International Airport and while waiting for a boarding gate.”

However, Alaska Airlines later clarified that the phone had “overheated and started to spark,” according to the airline’s updated statement.

“The crew acted quickly by using fire extinguishers and a battery containment bag to keep the phone from smoking,” an Alaska Airlines spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement.

The fire containment bags were deployed to the Alaska fleet in 2016 “to reduce the danger of mid-flight lithium-ion battery fires.”

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During the incident, crew members also “deployed the escape slides due to foggy conditions inside the cabin,” the airline said.

Two people were treated at a local hospital, according to the airline, which did not detail their condition.

The plane was eventually towed to a departure gate and had no impact on airport operations, the airport tweeted.