The overhead bin fire that caused a Spirit Airlines plane to divert course Wednesday to Jacksonville was caused by a vaping device, a passenger says.
flight Wednesday that forced its pilots to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, was caused by a vaping device, reports say.
Capt. Eric Prosswimmer of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department told FOX Business on Thursday that 10 people were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries after Spirit Flight 259 from Dallas to Orlando was diverted. "It was starting to drop altitude, and somebody yelled, ‘fire,’" Rocco Chierichella, a passenger identified by WJXT as a retired New York City firefighter, said after the emergency landing in the early afternoon.
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